TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters wrote a terrific post yesterday on the ten words he would love to see banned from press releases. Big topic, Robin! You’re talking about changing a total mindset, a way of thinking, that’s prevalent in many organizations where jargon and buzzwords define a powerful comfort zone.…
Scott from Google went out on the streets of New York and asked people if they know what a browser is. The results may or may not surprise you. What they’ll indicate is how those of us embedded with tech, as it were, use common terms like ‘browser’ which many…
This morning, I picked up a copy of today’s Daily Telegraph, the edition of the paper that includes “The Complete Expenses Files,†a 68-page report detailing the revelations about MPs’ expenses that the paper has been publishing every day for the past month or so. The first thing that struck…
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…
I’ve been thinking about this new cartoon from Hugh MacLeod on and off since I saw it yesterday. Hugh’s gapingvoid cartoons always make you think. I remember when I first discovered Hugh’s cartoons and that you could get one on your business cards. And then, you could get one on…
I love a journalist who genuinely has a way with words. Who’s actually a good writer. Who might have an agenda and doesn’t pretend he or she doesn’t. Who touches on things that make you nod in recognition as well as laugh your head off. In sum, a journalist who…
I’m helping to get the word out about Red Nose Day 2009. I’ve created my digital red nose photo. Happy to have contributed £1 for that (paid via PayPal, making it so easy). I’ve changed my Twitter avatar to this photo which I’ll keep throughout this week. I’m following @rednoseday2009…
The always-excellent cartoonist Matt sums things up very nicely in today’s Daily Telegraph with this front-page cartoon. In such a British tongue-in-cheek way, it captures the zeitgeist surrounding two highly topical and opinion-provoking events that have dominated the mainstream media during the past week. One is pretty serious, the other…
