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Category: Communication

  • RSS, Twitter and lifestreaming: Is there an engagement somewhere?

    Quite a bit of buzz today over the news from Matt Mullenweg that WordPress.com supports RSS Cloud, a new development in the evolution of RSS. Created by Dave Winer, RSS Cloud basically involves the push-notification to subscribers of your RSS…

  • A matter of grammar spin

    A report on the BBC News website this morning, about Kraft’s unsolicited takeover bid for Cadbury’s, included a sentence containing the use of a verb in a way that jarred my syntax sensibilities. The verb is ‘spin,’ used by the…

  • Writing on The Next Web

    Yesterday, I posted my first post on The Next Web blog. It was a cross-post of one I wrote here on my own blog. Interesting to see the popularity and global reach of The Next Web demonstrated as that first…

  • There’s a social media evolution – Part 1

    (See “There’s no social media revolution” by Paul Seaman for direct context.) Over the past few weeks, Paul Seaman and I have engaged in a friendly debate (well, a series of individual blog posts) about social media and whether or…

  • Is ‘social business’ the new black?

    What does “social business” mean? I’ve been wondering this since reading about the acquisition of Headshift by US agency Dachis Group announced this morning UK time. Among the flowery prose in the press release is this phrase that strikes me…