Robin Goad’s post yesterday on what a Google-Twitter marriage might mean has some terrific data on Twitter traffic, like this chart which shows the growth in UK visits to twitter.com over the past year and especially in the first quarter of 2009. That Q1 2009 line is dramatic, isn’t it?…
Content summary: Win free entry to Next09 in FIR Listener Contest; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on young Asians driven by media and music; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Eric Schwartzman interviews Los Angeles Times veteran, author, LAObserved.com blogger and UCLA online newsroom editor-in-chief Kevin Roderick; News That Fits:…
We’re excited to announce another FIR Listener Contest where one listener to the premier PR podcast can win a free ticket to participate in Next09 in Hamburg, Germany, on May 5-6, 2009. Next09 is one of the most important networking and trend conferences within the European web industry. The organizers…
I had a huge laugh at the idea of Flutter in “Think Microblogging is Hip? Try Nanoblogging!†and the rather good video parody on stereotype users of Twitter and other social networks. Especially this paragraph: […] people aren’t necessarily sick of social networking as they are of all the "gaming"…
RSS reader for Windows FeedDemon goes from strength to strength with version 3 as the latest test version I’m now running (3.0.0.10 Beta 1b)clearly indicates. Until the end of March, I’d been running a release candidate of version 2.8, the new version expected soon. But developer Nick Bradbury has jumped…
I’ve never been interested in motorbikes to the extend of wanting to buy one, but Judgement Days from Harley-Davidson in the UK could potentially change that. Judgement Days is a promotion that lets you test ride a Harley of your choice, free, during a near month-long themed promotion from mid…
In last Thursday’s FIR #436 podcast, I reported on a call to action by current IABC Chair, Barbara Gibson, concerning moves by the New Zealand government to reduce the number of communications staff in government as part of its efforts to better manage budgets, among other things. IABC issued an…
Each month since last December, my friends at information portal and news search engine Wikio have given me a glimpse of their monthly ranking of the UK’s top technology blogs ahead of publication. It’s April and I’ve just been looking through Wikio’s latest data for the top 30 UK tech…
