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Was it Twitter wot won it?
Undoubtedly the media world just experienced a truly significant episode. The decision by Trafigura’s legal firm, Carter-Ruck, to withdraw its opposition to The Guardian’s right to report the details of a question in the UK Pariament is – of course – important, but it would be a mistake to suggest that Twitter won the day.… — read more
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Animating the issues of US healthcare reform
From this side of the pond, it’s been quite tricky keeping tabs on what exactly is at the heart of the US healthcare reform debate that’s raging in the United States. So, if you take the prose of award-winning author John Green and the creative talent of the people at Thought Bubble, and mix it… — read more
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Moneysavingexpert(ish)
Just imagine if one of the many financial services brands or independent financial advisers – regularly berated by self-proclaimed MoneySavingExpert Martin Lewis – broadcast email content that was so ambiguous that it required the addition of an (ish) in the copy? They’d be hung out to dry wouldn’t they? (In fact, they are hung out… — read more
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Google’s move heralds dawn of ‘signature interaction’
Restaurants are always on a mission to rustle one up, TV game shows spawned an entire genre of them, and you and me have a unique one. Signatures – whether its dishes, tunes or handwritten monikers – are about to become the next big thing. As Mashable reported yesterday, Google has successfully secured the US… — read more
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Twittering technobabble
The estimable Stephen Fry has entered the emerging fracas over the claim made by Pear Analytics that 40 per cent of tweets are ‘babble’. Meanwhile, Pear’s analysis involved the random sampling of Twitter’s public timeline from Monday through to Friday, every 30 minutes from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm for two weeks. The trouble is, the… — read more
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And now for something completely different
After a break of a few days it seems that it is high time to publish a new post and, on the basis that I’ve tagged it with ‘Something for the weekend’, I’ve gone for new comedy. Every now and then, you discover a comedy gem that deserves the biggest, bestest, possible audience. Ladies and… — read more
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One small tweet for Man…
It’s amazing how much Apollo Eleven’s legendary mission to the moon continues to capture the imagination of people. For those of us who weren’t quite born – or were too young to remember – it’s hard to imagine what it must have been like to follow the Lunar mission from the TV and radio coverage… — read more
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The reality that shocked the City: There are teenagers.
Surely I am not the only one who barely batted an eyelid with the news that teenagers consume different kinds of media, in different ways and tend to be inclined towards patterns of consumption that differs from adults? In fact, I’m still trying to work out why the research note by 15-year-old Matthew Robson caused… — read more
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Anyone for Pogo?
I posted a link to Pogo in a tweet a couple of weeks ago but think he deserves a post on the blog. Aside from the fact that I have a personal preference for the kind of music he is creating, what I also love is his ability to take something as ubiquitous as speech… — read more
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Consumers 0 – 1 Financial Services Industry (FT)
If you had the faintest hope that the banking crisis might be a catalyst for a new style of respectful conversation between the financial services industry and the consumers of its products and services, then it’s likely they’ve been dashed. Because, last Thursday, the UK’s City watchdog – the Financial Services Authority (FSA) – published… — read more
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Ian Thomas 