Category: Society

  • So what will you do for ethics in PR?

    The subject of ethics in public relations often provokes strong opinions from people, especially when questionable practices fall under the critical spotlight – as Scott Adams so cannily grasped in this Dilbert cartoon in August. Ethics in PR issues from…

  • Voices from the Ealing tweetup

    Just under a year ago, I went to my first Ealing Tweetup in Ealing, west London. Organized by Mark Hillary, it was unlike any other tweetup I’d been to before in a number of ways especially the local-community, non-geeky feel…

  • How to hack a phone like News of The World journalists did

    Via Reuters: World renowned computer hacker, Kevin Mitnick, shows you step-by-step how the News of the World journalists hacked into private voicemails. Shockingly easy to do with some open source software as Mitnick explains. If you access your mobile phone…

  • Common sense prevails on social disorder and social networks

    Yesterday, Home Secretary Theresa May met with representatives of Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger and the police in a widely-reported get-together to discuss the rights and responsibilities of the users of social networks, and the rights and responsibilities of the…

  • How people tweet in China

    How people tweet in China

    Whenever China is a topic of business conversation, a communication service that’s talked about is Sina Weibo. The micro-blogging service – China’s Twitter equivalent – got mainstream attention outside China last month over its use as a primary communication channel…