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Category: Mainstream Media

  • ID cards: It’s all in the positioning

    Has the government finally got it right re the controversial identity card scheme for the UK? The Home Office is now talking less about counter-terrorism and more about easing travel in Europe, says eWeek Europe. […] in a rather downplayed…

  • A Twitter guide that’s worth a look

    With headlines ranging from the sublime (ministers and dummies in the Daily Mail) to the ridiculous (‘Big Brother’ in The Guardian), headline-writers in the UK mainstream media have had a field day over the past 24 hours in how they’ve…

  • 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,…

  • RIP Michael Jackson, you thrilled us

    I was up late in my office last night when the first comments on Twitter about the death of entertainer Michael Jackson started appearing. It wasn’t long before those tweets became a torrent as more and more people heard the…

  • The curious case of Steve Jobs, the WSJ and no known sources

    A growing story over the weekend concerns Apple CEO Steve Jobs, his state of health and whether or not he’s had a liver transplant. That’s what a report in the Wall Street Journal says. What I’ve found especially interesting is…