Category: Society

  • A look at a future of the social web

    Brian Solis writes a thought-provoking post about how he sees the future of the social web, prompted by a Forrester report of the same name published in April. Forrester’s research examined what’s happening in the context of what they describe…

  • The world in 2015 according to Google

    What will the future look like in five years’ time? That’s in 2015, the year of the next-but-one Rugby World Cup (a fact) and the end of the fourth estate (a prediction). It’s also the year of some predicted cool…

  • Last chance saloon for Royal Mail and CWU

    Driving home from Lancashire on Thursday night, I passed a number of big white articulated trucks on the M6 motorway heading south. Only one had logos or signage although I’m assuming all were doing the same thing – transporting the…

  • Postal strike nonsense

    From reading media reports over the past few days about the forthcoming national strike of postal workers called by the CWU trade union, planned for October 22 and 23, it’s hard to understand the logic of such a move. Some…

  • Look after your identity

    This week has been National Identity Fraud Prevention Week in the UK, a fact I wasn’t aware of before hearing about it from Josh Davidson at Fleishman Hillard, the PR agency behind the nationwide awareness drive designed to help UK…