Year: 2009

  • Ignore everybody and rock on

    About a month ago, a package arrived from the US via FedEx containing a slim paperback that was the advance uncorrected proofs of Ignore Everybody, the first mainstream-published book from cartoonist and entrepreneur Hugh Macleod, author of the blog Gapingvoid.…

  • Voices from Iran will be heard

    If you want to follow developments in Iran after the presidential election that took place on June 12, mainstream media reporting online and offline are the logical places to pay attention to. Yet these are not the only places –…

  • Easy upgrading WordPress to version 2.8

    A new version 2.8 of WordPress was released this week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that latest version. 2.8 has some significant new features, enhancements and fixes. What better way to show you what some of them are –…

  • Twitter drives $3m sales for Dell

    While many businesses are trying to work out how to make money from Twitter, computer maker Dell shows what they have done to validate Twitter as a credible business tool. Last December, Dell claimed $1 million in sales that the…

  • The News Release in the Social Media Era: Shel Holtz’s IABC presentation

    Content summary: Shel Holtz was part of the "All-Star" track at the annual world conference of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), presenting on the role of the news release in the social media era on June 9, 2009.…