About 15 months ago, I implemented the Thesis theme for WordPress on this blog. It’s a premium theme (you pay for it) and a powerful one as it gives you access to the means to customize many aspects of the look-and-feel of your WordPress site and its functionality without your…
If you’re an art lover who owns an iPhone or iPod Touch, you will rejoice today as you can visit the Musée du Louvre in Paris right on your device, wherever you happen to be. The museum just launched an iPhone app that offers a glimpse into the rich works…
This week’s edition of The Economist arrived in the post this morning. Not an unusual event, really, except it reminded me that last week’s didn’t show up until Tuesday because of the postal strike for three days. Which followed the two-day strike the week before. During this week, I’ve noticed…
Overflow from FIR #498 on November 5, 2009. PR Week: CIPR Seeks To Calm Concerns Over Looming Financial Loss. (Referenced: IABC wipes out deficit by Allan Jenkins, Feb 2006.) Download this podcast (2.54Mb, 5:33) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed.…
Content summary: Shel’s on his own in Toronto; how the Union for Reform Judaism used Twitter and Facebook to solicit member questions for Tony Blair’s live appearance at the group’s biennial; Google Wave and Twitter List reminders; Dan York’s report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: Novell introduces Pulse with…
This is one of the simplest yet most useful measurement tools for Twitter I’ve yet seen: TweetReach, discovered via a tweet by David Terrar earlier today. What TweetReach does is calculate how many people have seen something you, or anyone else, has tweeted. It connects to Twitter via an API…
Another quick look before publication at the Top 30 UK tech blogs list, thanks to my friends at the Wikio search engine. The top 30 list is a subset of Wikio’s compete Top 100 UK Technology Blogs ranking, the November update of which will be published tomorrow. Here’s the Top…
Content summary: FIR group on Google Wave up and running; Barbara Nixon suggests an FIR Twitter List; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: bridging the gap between corporate culture and the ‘Web 2.0 society’, what the…
