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Year: 2010

  • Diminishing care about politics

    Yesterday’s gaffe by Prime Minister Gordon Brown – he made disparaging private comments about a voter with whom he said publicly he’d had an enjoyable conversation, forgetting  that his radio microphone was still live – is all over the mainstream…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #544: April 26, 2010

    Content summary: Neville’s solo on Sunday and Shel’s on a plane; FIR Interview with Kelly Hoey published, Katie Paine’s NewComm Forum session is up; Shel’s review of NewComm Forum 2010; Neville looks at celebrity iPhone apps and Google Maps Navigation;…

  • Earthquakes and wisdom of the crowd

    Last week, a senior Iranian cleric claimed that earthquakes are caused by the promiscuous behaviour of women. Such a claim produced guffaws and countless Twitter retweets in probably most places outside Iran. Now Mashable reports on how a Facebook group…

  • Love for the Cadbury brand

    There’s quite a bit of talk about Cadbury – an iconic British brand controversially snapped up earlier this year by US food giant Kraft – becoming a presence on the High Street with Cadbury-branded outlets that, some say, would compete…

  • A keynote introduction for NCF10

    Although I couldn’t get to California to be part of things at NewComm Forum 2010 this week, I didn’t want to be wholly out of the picture for the closing keynote today, the one I was supposed to deliver this…