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The kerfuffle over those pics of Prince Harry in the buff in Las Vegas will reverberate for a while as The Establishment to’s and fro’s over the morality, ethics and plain business greed of it all. First published in the US by entertainment and celeb gossip website TMZ, the photos were easily discoverable on the [...]
In November 2011, I quit Klout. Totally and completely. Not only did I close the account, but also I cancelled permissions to allow Klout to connect to each of the online social places to which I’d previously given it permission. That included manually removing permissions from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare and others I can’t [...]
Like all professions, public relations has codes of ethics that describe behaviours to guide those who practice the profession to differentiate what’s right and wrong in how they do that. A simplistic view, perhaps, but not far off a base description of what ethical behaviour in PR should be about but, often, isn’t. So is [...]
So the kerfuffle over Twitter’s suspension of journalist Guy Adams’ account has ended, with the company reinstating it and issuing an apology of sorts. Adams, the Los Angeles-based correspondent for The Independent newspaper, had been posting a series of tweets that were highly-critical of US TV network NBC and its broadcast coverage of the London [...]
What a destruction of trust in this report of what people in Barclays Bank have been doing behind the scenes and for which the bank has been fined £290 million. [...] Former City minister Lord Myners told the BBC that the people at the top should take responsibility for “a complete cultural failure”. He said [...]
A bit of a kerfuffle has erupted with US retailing giant Walmart at the heart of it, as The Guardian reports: Stephanie Harnett, a publicist working for Mercury Communications, which has been retained by Walmart to assist in its effort to open a new store in the Chinatown area of Los Angeles, claimed to be [...]
Is it Shell’s private Arctic launch party that goes wrong? This was a private send-off for Shell’s arctic rigs (Kulluk and Noble discoverer) at the Seattle Space Needle. The rigs were visible outside the window. Incredibly, there was an obvious malfunction of the model rig that was supposed to pour drinks for guests. Or is [...]
German news magazine Der Spiegel reports that Germany’s largest credit agency plans to mine Facebook and other social networking sites in search of information that could help the agency determine what effect online relationships may have on people’s abilities to pay their bills. [... The credit agency] SCHUFA also plans to analyze information about people [...]
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