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  • Swine flu not to be sneezed at

    In an Audioboo I recorded last night commenting about developments over the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico, I said that what’s happening – the seemingly-unstoppable spread of the virus and the increasing concern from the World Health Organization as…

  • Cluetrain #9: Trust is the key

    Ten years ago, in April 1999, The Cluetrain Manifesto was published. This seminal work introduced 95 separate theses based on the concept that “markets are conversations.” Pretty radical stuff for many people in many companies to think about at the…

  • Nice concept, Phorm, pity about the execution

    An organization often in the news here in the UK is Phorm, the US-registered company behind some controversial experiments to measure people’s behaviours when they’re online through behavioural targeting. The latest move by Phorm in an escalating battle to win…

  • Twitter at the peak

    This post addresses a question I’ve been thinking about for quite a few weeks – in fact, every time a news report or stats about Twitter are published somewhere – and talks to specific points made by quite a few…

  • A dose of pre-Budget propaganda

    I just spend a minute and a half watching Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling talking about the 2009 UK budget, the details of which he’ll be presenting to Parliament in a few days time, on April 22. What do…