The writing’s on the wall: to be honest, paper would work better

I’ll be quite honest: until (thankfully very premature) reports of his impending doom appeared recently, I had to a great extent either ignored or forgotten about the writing of Clive James. When I did think of him, it was in the context of “reviewing” Japanese endurance gameshows on late-night...

Club Tropicana Drinks Are Free

OK so anyone that knows me will tell you that I am an absolute sucker for freebies, I will actually go out of my way to get the cloud shaped stress balls, mints and pens on offer at technology industry shows. In fact if I wasn’t a self-confessed geek perhaps consumer PR might have been more of a dra...

Power to the people?

Last week there was huge furore over the banning of the NeverSeconds blog by a local council in Scotland. It appeared that some councillors were unhappy about a local pupil taking a photo of her school meal each day and reviewing it.  Once the story broke, the Twittersphere (sorry a horrid word I...

Blog Save the Queen

After the recent long weekend of patriotic fervour I started thinking about why the Brits should colonise social media.   When the Queen was born the UK’s economy was based on manufacturing, now its banking.   Not very inspiring is it?

So why should social media change things?  Firstly, because we...