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Whatever you think of it, this symbol is one we’ll be seeing a great deal of in the coming weeks as London starts to gear up as host city of the 2012 Olympic Games in four years’ time.
When the 2012 logo was announced in June 2007, it attracted widespread criticism and dislike. I recall it [...]

The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world.
During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing and hearing about the Olympic Games whenever you turn on the TV or radio or [...]

One of the great things about digital TV and a personal video recorder (PVR) is the ease with which you as a viewer can wholly control what you watch.
With the exception of the news, I rarely watch TV as it’s broadcast. Instead, I programme the PVR to record things that I might want to [...]

Who gets the last laugh? asks Nick Robinson, the BBC’s political editor, in a summary yesterday of the campaign and result of the 2008 election for London mayor.
As everyone now knows, Boris Johnson won the contest and officially takes on the job at midnight tonight.
Johnson defeated incumbent Ken Livingstone who has been mayor for [...]

I watched a fascinating documentary on the Virgin1 TV channel last night - the story of the Tylenol poisoning crisis in 1982.
Seven people died in the Chicago area after ingesting Tylenol Extra Strength capsules that had been deliberately laced with potassium cyanide poison.
The murder mystery remains unresolved to this day and the killer has [...]

All is not well at broadcaster CNN, if the story of Chez Pazienza is anything to go by.
Pazienza, a producer on CNN’s American Morning TV show until last week, was fired for blogging.
At least, that’s what it looked like until Pazienza posted his account last night of what led up to his dismissal by [...]

One thing I like about Mark Ragan, CEO of Ragan Communications, is his willingness to dive in with new or different ways of communicating and see what happens when you experiment.
I do that a lot, too, so we were well suited to start something new with Mark’s MyRagan TV in the form of an addition [...]

A meme started doing the rounds among some mainstream media types last August on what some people do and read online.
I hadn’t seen it until a post by Drew Benvie included me among those he tagged.
So in the spirit of shared thinking and satisfying anyone’s curiosity, here’s a shortlist of my (typical) week in media.
What [...]

I’ve never watched The Likeaballs, a cartoon TV series for kids on the BBC’s Ceebeebies channel at 7am every weekday.
I’m a bit outside the target demographic
But could The Likeaballs be the saviour for English football now that the head coach has been fired following the national team’s disastrous performance at Wembley the other [...]

As the chairs in this photo might indicate, the hip Soho Hotel in London has quite an eye-popping venue for a meeting.
This was the scene early yesterday morning in the hotel’s screening room  just before people arrived for the start of "Influencing the online influencers," a meeting organized by Mantra PR in which I [...]