Month: April 2006

  • Nokia N93 for spontaneous video blogging

    I’m still extremely pleased with my Nokia N70 cameraphone. It does everything I want in a mobile phone including take superb photos for easy moblogging with Lifeblog. And it works wherever I am, in whichever country in Europe and North…

  • Spam blitz has Akismet struggling

    Is spam-catcher Akismet struggling today, or is this just a peculiar one-off? As I write this at 2.00pm, the list of spam comments and trackbacks blocked so far today by Akismet shows 231 items, the majority from an IP address…

  • Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 25-Apr-06

    Apple argues that blogger can’t protect source BlogExplosion.com Sold! Bloggers (at newspapers too) Need a Code of Ethics Gum the Keyboard, Stop The Presses, PR Man is Movie Hero How Microsoft can shut down Mini-Microsoft Hue and cry over the…

  • FIR #131 & ATS #29 – The Mashup Edition: April 24, 2006

    Content summary: About the FIR/ATS Mashup Edition; FIR listener survey update; new FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast online; does Phillips have a PR crisis over a patent application?; Castrol’s venture into RSS advertising and podcasting; a special report on new…

  • Social media drives greater employee engagement

    Here’s a terrific case study from Swedish/US communication consultants and training firm Gronstedt Group on the role social media plays in helping the sales team at US educational publisher Prentice-Hall improve their sales performance. The case study describes how the firm…