Has Apple reprogrammed your child’s OS?

I recently saw the YouTube clip of the one year old that couldn’t understand that a magazine was not a touchscreen and getting very annoyed that the pages were completely static. For me, books and magazines will never be ‘the same’ on a touchscreen, but will they still have the edge for the next gen...

Home is where the heart is. Usually.

Last month, my family and I finally took the great leap into the 21st century and signed up for an unlimited home broadband contract. While the main difference has been an increased willingness to always use the HD option on iPlayer, it’s also meant that working from home is now near-identical to wo...

Curiosity Killed The Cat, But Gave Us Facebook…!

The news last week that Conservative minister, Oliver Letwin, had been discarding official documents in a park bin unsurprisingly led to huge public outrage in the press, on social networking sites and in office canteens all over the UK.

Ironically though, thousands of people have expressed and co...

PR, PR, PR Sweetie Darling…

In PR we are often accused of using ‘PR speak’. Basically, we apparently put a gloss on everything – person, place, product, etc. In essence no matter how bad that thing might be, to us, it’s bloody brilliant and the world needs to know.

This isn’t necessarily an accurate representation, but it’s...

Let’s do lunch

“Why a career in PR?” is a question that can draw some interesting responses. “Lunch” is a response I remember from one guy who I studied PR with at Bournemouth University. For him lunch is the most important meal of the day and PR professionals spend most of their time ‘doing lunch’.

Okay so lu...