Category: Communication

  • Grasping the nettle of PR spam

    Spam: a scourge of contemporary life. I’m talking about the digital variety rather than the savoury meat product originating in a mists-of-time, analogue age. Just about the worst kind of spam I see is that which purports to be relevant…

  • Flickr by the billions

    A fascinating milestone in social sharing online was passed on September 17 when the five-billionth photo was publicly shared on Flickr, the online photo-sharing service that was in at the beginning of the social media revolution. So for posterity, here’s…

  • For now, Twitter is what you make it

    Twitter‘s all over the news today, not only tech but also general, reporting and commenting on its announcement yesterday of "a new, re-engineered Twitter.com that provides an easier, faster, and richer experience." In essence, Twitter has re-designed the website with…

  • A cancer-awareness campaign that’s in your face

    Do the images on this page offend you? If they do, I imagine it’s the use of the f-word that you find offensive. Or perhaps its the juxtaposition of that word with the word ‘cancer.’ Possibly it’s the logo’s garish…

  • A promising start for CIPR TV

    A new television channel started up today in London that offers the organization behind it an opportunity to reach out in a new and interesting way to people it wants to connect with, and viewers to gain access to information…