Just been listening to comedian Eddie Izzard’s European podcast, an account of his two-day visit to Brussels last week in the company of Prime Minister Tony Blair for a meeting of the European Council. Izzard’s concluding remark is that he hopes the podcast has been “vaguely illuminating.” Well, I did learn…
Heh! My wife wants me to get a divorce…
Catching up with email unread since last Wednesday (having been away), I start with one from Eric Eggertson which helps me get up to speed with the extraordinary tale of the nobodies. And what a tale! Starting from a rude personal assault on Allan Jenkins in an article by David…
How up-to-the-mark is your site as far as Web 2.0 is concerned? Are you at the bleeding edge with Ajax, tagging, Google maps or community content? Silly or mis-spelled names and rounded corners? Now you can find out via the Official Web 2.0 Certifyr. Just enter your site address, fill…
Everyone believes that one of the points of blogging and the internet in general is to connect with other people, right? That’s why we pay attention to things like LinkedIn connections, Technorati rankings, BlogPulse conversation trackers and other tools that let us see who’s connected to who and who’s talking…
With all the serious talk in recent weeks about how to pitch bloggers, it’s good to see that some in the PR blogger community can keep their tongues firmly in their cheeks and provide a little light relief to balance all these heavy discussions. Josh Hallett has done just that…
Hugh and I were exchanging some emails about my little faux pas over my previous post about Edelman (re a story that turned out not to be true). Mea culpa, said Hugh. A kind response, but it was more to do with my own ‘click-and-post’ behaviour rather than ‘click-and-read-everything first.’…
If you travel a lot (or even a little) on business, it is well worth your time reading the stories of business travel – mostly horror but with some real positive gems and lots of irony – posted by my podcasting co-host Shel Holtz on his excellent Road Weary blog.…
