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A collection of 17 posts
Tech today in one sentence
Russell Davies: We’re in that phase with a bunch of technologies where corporations don’t know if things make them look cool or evil. Case in point.…
Blogger blackmail or blagger blunder?
Today in “things that depress me”: One of the biggest points being made on Twitter is that bloggers don’t get stuff for free, but are working for their reviews. I wholeheartedly agree. There is nothing wrong with a blogger…
The "placed" story and other failures of journalism
Sarah Lacy is outraged by PR behaviour: A company pivoted (read: failed) and decided it wanted some positive press. So it paid someone to write a story. Not a press release or a guest post, an actual fake news story,…
Traditional journalism will 'blow away on the winds of the internet'
Philip Trippenbach: Make no mistake: traditional, platform-based journalism is being crushed, and its dust will blow away on the winds of the internet. I know this is a melodramatic way to put it, but it’s an important point to…
Owning Social Meda, and APA Breakfasting
My diary is filling up alarmingly right now, and it has been a hectic couple of days, but I just wanted to pause a second and blog a little about a talk I gave to the [APA – the Association of…
A Press Lunch With A Twist
How do you make your annual press lunch stand out from the pack? You make [the journalists cook it themselves](http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/focus/2010/04/property-masterchef-aka-allsops-press-lunch.html).*Awesome*.…
When is a Blogger not a Blogger?
Isn’t it interesting how the broadening of the communication channel causes gatekeepers of all stripes (in this case, the Tory press office) to tie themselves into knots trying to define who is “media” and who isn’t? Incidentally, I…