Google knows all about you. Yeah right, you know this, but do you know how much? It knows how many times you’ve been rick-rolled (YouTube), it knows that you have an unhealthy obsession with Gogol (Google Books), that you spend your working day flicking between 4Chan and textsfromlastnight (Chrome) and that you don’t read any [...]
Since my blog has had a facelift, I no longer have the completely useless Delicious sidebar thingy I made. This means I’m going to become one of those bloggers now and post a few links that you might like. I swear I’ll only do this once a week though. Promise. Kerry Gafney talks about the [...]
Politics is a sticky issue for me. I have massive left/right internal conflicts, but tend to take a libertarian view of the world. Sometimes borderline anarchistic, but not in a bad way, in the best way. I feel like I had to explain my stance before I begin to write what I’m about to write… [...]
Beware, I’ve been reading.
Bit obscure, but stay with me.
“As we leave behind the 20th century, it is almost as if we have come full circle back to the village where everyone potentially knows your business” Zeynep Tufekci, Wired Nov 09, P.113. This is true. And you know what is also true? The internet won’t change our lives, it will add to our lives. [...]
I’m beginning to become a fan of photo and video. Video because it’s fun to watch Paul make a fool of himself making elephants out of balloons and because it’s fun to make Becca feel silly. Photo because I really like the idea of sharing where I’ve been so that maybe you might go too. [...]
So I’ve neglected my blog for a while. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those ‘Oh God, I’ve just been soooo busy’ posts. I work smart, not hard (I do work hard, honest Stuart!). It’s official; I’m going to write more stuffs. It’s also going to be redesigned and probably renamed (more on that later [...]
So, here I am, sat behind a lovely little desk in a building in the Lace Market (Lace Market House, genius!) giving people badges and smiles and trying to minimise my sarcasm (some people don’t ‘get’ my sarcasm immediately!). I sat in the first session of the day this morning, Susi O’Neill spoke about how [...]
I attended the excellent NMK online PR debate last night and came away with plenty to think about. Other than the Q&A session at which point those posing questions became either; a) guarded or b) salesy (it must’ve felt like a shark tank for the one client that attended), the debate covered a lot of [...]
We’re getting closer to the end of the academic year and dissertation deadlines are either fast approaching (just ask Kristen, my new best friend, who’s a few weeks away) or have just passed (cue sigh of relief, only to be quickly followed by the immediate realisation that now you have to find a job). Those [...]
I was listening to radio four’s Today Programme (fancy, I know, but I don’t understand all the words) on my way into work this morning – which, incidentally, took two hours (thank you Mr Transport Minister for not funding back stocks salt and grit properly) – and they were talking about the Carol Thatcher debacle. [...]
#DEVILS ADVOCATE POST# I know that I’ve written a post about this before, but I felt it necessary to write a quick post on this. I’m purely playing the Devils advocate and I am in no way suggesting that it’s good for quality PR professionals to lose their jobs. I came across the Bristol Editor [...]
I was looking through the BeamItDown collection of iPod Touch/iPhone books the other day when I stumbled across something really interesting, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ‘Fireside Chats’. Between 1933 and 1944 (the Great Depression) Roosevelt used to broadcast fireside chats that addressed a wide variety of topics. There were 29 chats in all and they ranged [...]