It’s nearly a week since Le Web 3 in Paris and it’s still hard to find any meaningful commentary about the event that isn’t overshadowed by talk about the political hijacking of the two-day conference. Much blog commentary late last week focused on the firing of Sam Sethi, co-editor of…
An extraordinary event took place in Paris this week, one that I was due to be part of as a presenter but could not make it. Le Web 3, the third in a series of Web 2.0-ish events organized by Loic Le Meur, attracted nearly 1,000 people from over 35…
All British travellers who have visited the United States over the past four years have been given a terrorist rating, according to a Daily Telegraph report. This is one of the outcomes of the implementation of the Automated Targeting System (ATS), which the US government uses as part of its…
One of the neat features of the FeedDemon RSS aggregator is how easy it is to manipulate the news and information that you subscribe to. For example, highlighting items of interest for later attention, such as blogging about them. You can do that manually, copying those items to a news…
The French parliament has said ‘au revoir’ to Microsoft, according to a Yahoo News report: […] Starting [next June], French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, and OpenOffice.org, a free open-source alternative to Microsoft’s Office software. […] Why the change? The French parliament […]…
The Wall Street Journal reports today on a long-running labour dispute in the US between the United Steelworkers union and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. What makes this dispute of special interest from the communication point of view is what the union is doing overall in communicating its position…
Arab TV network Al Jazeera launched an English-language service yesterday that, inevitably, attracted criticisms in the US and elsewhere where some see the station purely as a mouthpiece for Osama Bin Laden. The station has consistently denied any such linkage, according to a BBC report. Whatever anyone’s perception is of…
It’s been over 20 years since I was last inside Claridge’s Hotel in London, so a visit there yesterday morning provoked a little bit of nostalgia. Claridge’s was the venue for a gathering of “influential members of the UK ‘blogerati’ from the realms of politics, media and public relations” –…
