In the wake of developments in what’s happening in Iran following elections there last week – continuing violent street protests and the Iranian government muzzling the foreign media – this announcement by Twitter yesterday about its delaying a critical maintenance task takes on greater significance than it otherwise would have…
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A post by Frank Eliason on business cards got me thinking a lot about the value of such bits of paper. And they are bits of paper, aren’t they? Name, title, company, logo, address, phone, email, etc, printed on rectangular bits of stiff paper. The format hasn’t really changed in…
As we’re in a recession, you have to look for cost savings wherever you can find them. From a consumer’s point of view, that often means compromising your brand preferences. At least, that’s how it looks to me when I go with my wife to the supermarket and look at…
About a month ago, a package arrived from the US via FedEx containing a slim paperback that was the advance uncorrected proofs of Ignore Everybody, the first mainstream-published book from cartoonist and entrepreneur Hugh Macleod, author of the blog Gapingvoid. The book, published in hardback by Penguin, launched on June…
If you want to follow developments in Iran after the presidential election that took place on June 12, mainstream media reporting online and offline are the logical places to pay attention to. Yet these are not the only places – even as the Iranian government clamps down on freedoms of…
A new version 2.8 of WordPress was released this week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that latest version. 2.8 has some significant new features, enhancements and fixes. What better way to show you what some of them are – just get a load of the much-improved new widgets admin…
While many businesses are trying to work out how to make money from Twitter, computer maker Dell shows what they have done to validate Twitter as a credible business tool. Last December, Dell claimed $1 million in sales that the company could directly attribute to their use of Twitter. Dell…
