With a title like this on the Europa website, there’s little doubting where Viviane Reding, the European Union’s Commissioner for Information Society and Media, stands on the thorny topic of forcing mobile operators to reduce the costs for mobile phone customers when using their phones in other EU countries and…
Doing a little research on ghost writing and ghost blogging for a client assignment, I came upon a simple perspective by Jane Fonda. The legendary actress, who started writing her blog in January (she’s also now on Twitter), has a clear view about who writes content on her blog and…
I spent some time last weekend doing some updating and general sorting out on my dad’s laptop, an IBM Thinkpad running Windows XP. Among the many updates I installed was Internet Explorer from version 7 to version 8. It’s pretty but, boy, is it slow to load and then use,…
Mobile phone operators Vodafone and Telefónica (owner of O2) are to share networks in the UK, Germany, Spain and Ireland, says eWeek Europe. […] Under the deal , the companies will pool existing 2G and 3G masts, and will build new sites jointly, leading to a significant reduction in the…
Content summary: A conversation with SNCR founder and executive director Jen McClure about NewComm Forum 2009; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: is ‘social CRM’ the future of Twitter?, not even journalists are safe from their online pasts, UK government defends use of Second Life, PR’s responsibilities…
I’d not heard about The Age of Stupid before seeing a story in the Financial Times about it that showed up in my RSS reader this morning. The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, which will have its world premiere in London…
Some news stories provide a perfect opportunity for a bit of imagination in writing a snappy headline, often with a pun or metaphor. News a few days ago that ad-supported music sharing site Spiralfrog has bitten the dust was one such opportunity as this view of news blog headlines in…
The reasons why people use Twitter are probably as varied as the number of people on the service, some 7 million in total. There’s a rather amusing video parody of Twitter posted by Current TV which pokes fun at people who use Twitter. Whether you do have a good laugh…
