With Shiny Media going into administration yesterday there is a timely piece in the FT today on blogs . Yes, they're big business in the US (its like the FT just noticed), but here start-ups have struggled to replicate the success of the Huffington Post and Gawker. Is the UK simply too small? We...
On Wired.com, Andrew Exum is wondering all about Iran and the explosive use of social media to organise, agitate and protest in Iran. He's wondering how real it all is? And if it is the technological enabled few rather than the digitally deprived masses. He wrote: "Are we simply finding common...
One of the best descriptions I’ve read lately on how social media is affecting traditional PR thinking came from Andy Sernovitz, CEO of The Blog Council in the FT last week: “It’s no longer just companies talking to the press and customer service talking to customers. All these other people showed up...
"Watching the first part of Jamie Oliver’s new series, Ministry of Food, on Channel 4 last night I was, in turn, thoroughly depressed by the state of our food culture and heartened to see him using his cheeky chappy, chippy persona to try and do something about it. Predictably, some coverage of...
