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In my car this morning, I heard a 30-second ad on my local radio station 2-Ten FM from British Airways which talked about the average time experienced by specific passengers when they checked in for a flight at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 yesterday.
You might recall the disaster of Terminal 5 when it opened in March: [...]

Mobile operator 3 has taken the extraordinary step of disabling the general capability of using its mobile broadband data service while roaming out of a user’s home network.
If you’re a 3 customer with a 3 broadband dongle - the broadband modem you stick into the USB port on your computer - and you’re travelling [...]

Getting ready to leave the Windy City after three fascinating days here. The picture above is one of many I shot this morning (Chicago time) along Michigan Avenue, all with my Nokia N95 8GB.
I also did a video walkabout, so to speak, just walking with the video camera on. Got some great video. I’ll [...]

Today I travel to Chicago, USA, where I’ll be participating in the New Media Academic Summit 2008, organized by Edelman and co-hosted by Edelman and PR Week.
There’s an impressive lineup of speakers, and an equally if not more impressive line up of participants representing nearly 70 universities from across North America.
As a participant from Europe, [...]

I’ll be in Chicago from June 25-28 for the New Media Academic Summit 2008 hosted by Edelman and PR Week, speaking on one of the panels.
A post soon about the event but meanwhile, a note for your diary - if you would like to get together in the evening of Friday June 27, there will [...]

One handy web service I’ve been using for the past seven months or so is Dopplr.
Dopplr lets you share your travel plans with others you know. The service then lets you know if any of your friends will be where you’ll be when you travel, and vice versa.
I’ve found Dopplr a pleasure to use [...]

I’m still in Dublin following yesterday’s PRII conference at which I spoke about PR and social media.
I gather all the presentations will soon be online at the PRII website, I guess sometime next week.
It was a terrific event. The venue was the ballroom at the Conrad Hotel, a pretty big room. It was packed; I’d [...]

Later this week, I’m travelling to Dublin to speak at the annual conference of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland on May 9.
As I’ll be in Dublin over the weekend as well, it’s a great opportunity to meet up on Saturday with the Irish community of bloggers and users of Twitter, Jaiku and any other [...]

Watching the unfolding PR disaster for British Airways over the catastrophe surrounding the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport during the past 48 hours, one word springs to mind.
Expectations.
For the past day and a half, the newspapers and TV news have been full of images of chaos at T5: cancelled flights, nightmare baggage handling [...]

In The Economist this week, there’s a fascinating feature about China and the country’s development of its infrastructure - roads, railways, airports, etc.
As with much of the writing in The Economist, it’s a well-written and compelling piece that draws you into the story.
And what a story.

With almost every paragraph, I felt bombarded, smacked in [...]