I’ve been reading what a lot of bloggers are predicting for 2007. If only a handful of these things actually happen, it will be a phenomenal year for people, for business and for Life As We Know It! While I didn’t plan on making any predictions for 2007, I just…
Where else would you read about a survey like this but in The Sun? – NEARLY half of Brits regularly chat to friends and family on their home phone NAKED, a survey has revealed. The poll showed 49 per cent of 600 people questioned were happy to use the phone…
I managed to connect to Second Life this morning for the first time in two days. The virtual world – generally known as the grid – was completely offline since Thursday as developer Linden Lab grappled with a combination of a hardware failure plus database issues. Downtime due to infrastructure…
Content summary: Two new interviews and a book review posted; ethics Skypecast is on Jan 13; Lee Hopkins eulogizes on FIR; Mitch Joel’s international 6POS podcast; the ways PR agents piss off journalists, and a few companies that do it right; what is the value of professional PR bodies?; PRSA…
The phrase “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” seems to be an appropriate idiom to describe a developing kerfuffle surrounding Microsoft’s latest blogger outreach campaign ahead of the launch of Windows Vista at the end of January. Concisely, here’s what’s happening: 1. A few days before Christmas, Microsoft…
It’s been said that we now live in an attention economy, what I equate to what everyone used to call ‘information overload.’ It addresses a situation where there is so much to which you could give your attention that the only way to deal with it all is to divide…
Shel was busy during Christmas producing two new FIR podcasts which he’s posted to the FIR site: FIR Book Review – “Citizen Marketers: When People are the Message,†by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, authors of the Church of the Customer blog. 14 minutes. FIR Interview – Chris Heuer, Silicon…
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday characterized chiefly as a time for getting together with one’s family, spreading goodwill, feasting, and exchanging presents – Wikipedia definition. That’s as good a definition of modern Christmas as any I’ve seen, and it accurately reflects how my family spent Christmas Day…
