What the “Techie Tot” means for grown ups

A recent survey from Legal and General, on a topic other than umbrellas, found that more and more parents are concerned with their children’s obsession with playing with their expensive smartphones and tablets. 10% of those surveyed had even revealed that their children downloaded software without...

Be PRoud…..

A recent online debate from The Economist discussed whether the Internet is making journalism better or worse. One of the points raised was the issue of the Internet promoting ‘churnalism’. Linking to the Wikipedia definition of the term probably reflects the issue some have with churnalism in t...

How do you solve a PR-oblem like the Murdochs?

Over the past few weeks the media has, of course, been dominated by the News Corp. hacking story. While this is obviously about much more than PR, it’s interesting how much of it has hinged on public relations.

Despite the money no doubt being poured into PR by News Corp. there have been a lot of...

Technology enables seats of learning, not a tower of Babel

A recent study from Columbia University claims that the ability to find almost any information at the click of a few buttons on Google could make us less likely to remember things. Apparently, researchers believe that we tend to forget information if we are confident that we can find it again.

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