I'm so bored of people talking about the potency of social media sites that I've decided to go on a journey in a helium balloon - I've already tipped off the Berkhamsted and Tring Gazette . I'd never really considered or cared what sort of biscuit Gordon Brown preferred but the great...
Mark Thompson has finally admitted that the BBC must cut its budgets. Not, as you might expect, because it is lavish, over-staffed and is strangling its commercial rivals to death but because it might breach its ‘statutory borrowing limit'. How awful if that happened. Oh well, nonetheless we should...
If you had been in any doubt this weekend must have cleared it up. It was kind of amazing. I don't know what happened, but I could not escape Twitter. It was literally everywhere I went: online, in print, on TV and radio. It was like someone flicked (Tweeted) a huge switch. Of course, there was the...
What an exciting week. As any fule kno, tomorrow marks the inauguration of Barack Obama while Friday sees is the triumphal return of middle-aged potty mouthed lout Jonathan Ross. It's been impossible to avoid the former - watching the news last nightm, the BBC's news anchor and Washington correspondent...
Proximity has been sacked from the TV Licensing (TVL) business for which it won so many awards. Why? Because it messed up on the data it quoted regarding the number of fee evaders. The Telegraph, which broke the story, also referred to the use of false pre-printed signatures and the use of intimidatory...
It isn't like the Daily Mail needs an excuse to bash the BBC, but was there more at play in the recent "Sachsgate" affair than meets the eye? And did it cost the corporation its much vaunted BBC Local web service? It was on Popbitch today, but it is I think worth repeating in more detail...
Anyone else watch Mark Thompson's and Michael Lyons' performance before the Commons culture, media and sport select committee? There was pitiful little evidence of either wearing a hair shirt - in fact, neither looked that they were particularly bothered to be there. Thompson said that the BBC...
Deborah Meaden is a ‘marketing guru'. We know that because Evan Davies gravely intones it in the opening credits to every episode of Dragon's Den. Except that last night we found out that she wasn't; not really. In BBC2's Dragon's Den: the Dragon's Story - an otherwise interesting...
Jemima Kiss in the Guardian today picked up on an interesting angle going on in the Social Media monitoring world which Brand Republic’s mini threads of comment remain oblivious to. As the BBC story around Russell and Ross exploded over the past week or so, their websites haven’t. As complaints on the...
