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...
Continue reading...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...
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Do you know a SuperNova?
Remember the SuperNova awards from Constellation Research, well they are back again and the closing date for entries is the 22nd of June. I’m a judge again this year and if the quality of last year’s entries is anything to go by then some tough choices will have to be made. It seems that amongst a...
Continue reading...iProductive
The day before I joined Spark I decided to take the plunge and purchase myself the new 3G iPad. My reason for buying it was simple- I am a die-hard commuter. My entire journey to work and back currently takes me three hours each day, which means that by the end of this year, I will have spent 720 ho...
Continue reading...Desert Island No Discs
It was interesting to see Lovefilm recently reveal that its streaming business had overtaken its physical DVD, Blu-ray and game rentals for the first time. While it may still be a bit too early to write the obituary for physical media, announcements like this make it clear that times are changing...
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