This post addresses a question I’ve been thinking about for quite a few weeks – in fact, every time a news report or stats about Twitter are published somewhere – and talks to specific points made by quite a few people, bloggers and journalists alike, in the past week. The…
Of all the continuing reporting, commentary, op-eds and general opinion about the Damian McBride affair aka Smeargate that I’ve been reading, an opinion piece by PR Week editor Danny Rogers in today’s Guardian is pretty good. Rogers assesses the current gap between Labour and the Conservatives in how each party…
I just spend a minute and a half watching Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling talking about the 2009 UK budget, the details of which he’ll be presenting to Parliament in a few days time, on April 22. What do you think of it? I don’t know about you, but…
For day-to-day interacting with Twitter, you can’t beat a good third-party app in my experience. As to which is the best one, that’s largely a matter of subjective opinion although some popularity measurement is good, too. My favourite? TweetDeck followed closely by Seesmic Desktop which I’m trying out. Those are…
Hot news in the US yesterday was the popularity contest between TV actor Ashton Kutcher (the current husband of Demi Moore) and the CNN TV network to see who would be the first to acquire one million followers on Twitter. Kutcher won. He might have had some help in his…
Content summary: Shel’s in Pittsburgh; take the 2009 FIR Listener Survey; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on April 25; FIR Listener Contest still awaits first entrant; Dan York reports on Domino’s Pizza and communication futures; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Domino’s Pizza discussion introduced by…
I used to be a paying subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, one of only two newspapers whose online content I’m willing to pay for (the other being the Financial Times). When it came to the toss a few years ago, and a budget only for one, I stayed with…
Yesterday was quite a day for Domino’s Pizza‘s leadership and the communication team. It was a day during which the number of people who viewed a nasty video posted to YouTube by two rogue employees approached a million, thousands of others posted comments online, and the company became embroiled in…
