Category: Business

  • Back to the dark ages with pay per click for PRs

    You might remember the huge kerfuffle last summer about the Associated Press and its plans to charge bloggers on a pay-per-word basis every time a blogger used any content from an AP story in a blog post. So, for instance,…

  • Supermarket shopping on the go

    One of the things I consistently say about the iPhone is that it’s all about the apps. For the sheer scope and scale of useful little programs for your iPhone or iPod Touch – known simply as ‘apps’ –  this…

  • Job requirement: Twitter followers

    A recruitment ad for a Sr. Manager – Emerging Media Marketing Job at US retailer Best Buy includes an item under the “Preferred Qualifications” heading that applicants have “250 plus followers on Twitter.” I guess it’s one way of noting…

  • Numbered days for Phorm

    The plans of behavioural targeting firm Phorm for spying on what people do online look to have taken a terminal hit as The Guardian reports. The announcement today of BT’s pull-out suggests it could be hard for Phorm to continue…

  • Cision’s Top 10 UK PR blogs

    Business and communication intelligence firm Cision updated their list yesterday of the top 10 PR blogs in the UK, which now looks like this: Neville Hobson PR Media Blog Drew B’s take on tech PR The Way of the Web…