Archive for July, 2009
The other day I started to tally up how much of my life is spent sitting in front of a screen.
I get up, and almost the first conscious thing I do is to check my emails and overnight RSS feeds. Then it’s off into work, where I spend a good part of the next eight-plus [...]
links for 2009-07-23
The Mac Versus PC Debate Has Never Been Clearer
The success of Apple's business plan is laid bare: 9 out of every 10 dollars that is spent on PCs in that price range, goes to Apple
(tags: apple business pc computer)
links for 2009-07-21
Twitter suspension shows risks for communicators on Twitter
Including official avice from Twitter as [...]
The polarising effect of Twitter never fails to amaze and entertain me. At last week’s Civil Service Live event, Twitter had managed to make two entries onto the “cool wall” – one under the heading of “Sub-zero” and the other under the heading of “seriously uncool”: I can think of no better illustration of the [...]
links for 2009-07-13
URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use?
Comparison of TinyURL, tr.im, is.dg et al and discussion about the various features included or desired.
(tags: twitter URL tools web2.0 links tinyurl shortening)
Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert
"Report on young people's media habits written for investment bank by teenage intern causes [...]
This week’s big television event was the five-part series of Torchwood across five consecutive nights. Everyone seemed to be talking about it, and the general view seems to be that it was really very good. Except that a lot of folk don’t like the finish.
Before I saw the end, I was opining that the headwriter [...]
Mock the Week is cold-blooded comedy combat
Behind the scenes at "swaggering sharp-suited gag-off, Mock the Week" – "a brutal and often cruelly competitive comedy war of attrition where ambitious comedians all but bellow over each other"!
(tags: mocktheweek comedy television)
Civil servant sacked over e-mail
Civil servant sacked for sending an email to Hazel Blears' website about her [...]
It’s been an interesting week of workshops, training courses, conferences and presentations this week. And the buzz word this year is without doubt ‘innovation’.
I’ll try and summarise four days’ worth of learning into four bullet points:
Innovation has to be done fast. Delays are fatal. Committees, checkpoints, reviews and gateways are mortal enemies.
Innovation is inherently risky. [...]
links for 2009-07-08
'Traveling Geeks' discuss journalism in the 21st Century
With people under 35 no longer reading papers, and classified moving online – whither the newspaper business?
(tags: travellinggeeks journalism future)
'Blackhall' – collaborative working in Whitehall
Interesting thoughts (and initial policy paper draft from 2008) about completely remaking and rethinking government for the 21st century.
(tags: civilservice publicsector ukgovernment [...]
I was rather irritated the other day listening to BBC Radio 4’s Americana (available in the UK on iPlayer) when the presenter of the show, Kevin Connolly, made two anti-new media comments in the course of a six minute interview with Tina Brown, ex-Vanity Fair editor and now editor of online news site The Daily [...]
I woke up this morning to the news that a website for the MOD and RAF project managed by my colleagues in the office and delivered by one of our appointed agencies, LIDA, had won Best Website at the CIPD Recruitment Marketing awards.
Naturally, I first heard this from Twitter – by way of the Director [...]
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