Author: Neville Hobson

  • Everyone has the exclusive

    At a press event for Saab’s new Aero X concept car: A Norwegian paper drags the car away to [a gas station] and the reporter gets incredibly upset when we join him. He says he’s got exclusive rights to the…

  • A promising future for intranets and social media

    “Make communications more exciting” is how I would summarize the sentiment of all who participated in the two Melcrum workshops on intranets and social media that I co-presented in London last week and in Manchester the week before. Indeed, that…

  • Ups and downs with offline blog editors

    Upward movement with new beta versions of a couple of offline blog editors I’m trying out: ecto for Windows 2: Release candidate number 1 is now available. As I mentioned recently, this new version has WYSIWYG editing and other improvements…

  • EU domain takes off

    Europeans have rushed to grab a virtual home in cyberspace, says the BBC. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up for new .eu domain name since it became available to the public on Friday, according to the BBC News…

  • Extraordinary nobodies

    Catching up with email unread since last Wednesday (having been away), I start with one from Eric Eggertson which helps me get up to speed with the extraordinary tale of the nobodies. And what a tale! Starting from a rude…