The New Statesman reports that the Labour Party is to use the short 'Against the odds' film as part of its effort to fight the next election after a campaign by bloggers. It's a short history of the Labour movement and is stirring stuff. It begins with the words: "It's the fighters...
The ad agency world is not shining when it comes to using social media to market itself, according to new research, but is pretty good at setting things up blogs and Twitter accounts and then infrequently updating them. Overall, the **research from search consultants RSW/US found that very few agencies...
Readers of my US blog, AdScam , where informed yesterday that I have given up on Twitter. Why? Because in the last few days, I have had dozens of emails from very pissed off people asking why I am bombarding them with shitty emails flogging everything from insurance to condoms. Obviously someone has...
A Huffington Post style start-up news site is up and running in Germany with plans later for an English version apparently in the pipeline. Techcrunch reports that German Web 2.0 figure Lukasz Gadowski , who was previously behind online t-shirt firm Spreadshirt.com, is one of those behind online publishing...
There was I under the impression there were not a great deal of teens on Twitter, when the Sun sticks on its front page this morning that the micro blogging service has become "a free and easy hunting ground for paedophiles seeking to lure kids for sex". The tabloid claims that it uncovered...
One of the comments on my last post implied that people who work in advertising shouldn’t be too fussy when it comes to deciding whether or not they wanted to work on certain kinds of accounts… ‘Cos they pay your wages! This drove to write a comment in reply, which I then decided to turn into a post...
So, I've spent a week or two experimenting with Google Wave. I've had some correspondence with some journalists I know, a Vistage colleague in the US, other people who run digital agencies. And it's been a frustrating experience. I think partly the way they've done the beta release is...
Today 8,000+ bloggers from 144 countries, reaching 11 million viewers, are joining together to chime in with posts about one single important global issue of climate change. Did you post yet? Visit the Blog Action Day website to find out more about this event. I take climate change personally. I live...
In the truth is stranger than fiction dept, French satirical investigative journalism weekly “ Le Canard Enchaîné ,“ has outed holier-than-thou French president, Nicolas Sarkozy for violating copyright laws. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the presidential department of audiovisual services produced...
Did you happen to read the amazing interview in Monday’s Wall Street Journal with Jeff Horing, co-founder of Insight Venture Partners, a New York private-equity firm that was the lead investor in Twitter’s third and latest fund-raising round? These are the geezers who just pumped in $100 million in funding...
