Category: Society

  • Unfiltered Branson

    Sir Richard Branson isn’t just a guy with a beard and a penchant for sweaters, balloons and boat racing. He’s also the man behind one of the most successful brands in the world: Virgin. So starts the bio page that…

  • comScore: The growing appeal of social networks in Europe

    Interesting stats from comScore, the internet information provider, on the growth and penetration of social networks in 16 European countries in 2008. I made the chart above (for use in a PPT deck) that interprets the tabular data in comScore’s…

  • Twestival today!

    Today, February 12, marks the culmination of an awful lot of effort and energy by many people around the world, volunteers all, who have made Twestival. This is an event taking place today in over 175 cities around the world,…

  • Hardly anyone trusts the media

    Press intrusion and inaccurate reporting in the UK are getting worse because the recession has forced newspapers to make cutbacks, says the BBC in summarizing A More Accountable Press, a report published today by the Media Standards Trust which says…

  • The Telegraph is Twitter crazy

    The British media’s continuing love affair with Twitter has taken a huge leap into the mainstream with “Twitter Crazy,” an easy-to-understand guide to getting into microblogging published in today’s Telegraph Weekend, the lifestyle supplement in The Daily Telegraph on Saturdays.…