Category: Trends

  • Facebook is not the only game in town

    With the news confirmed that Facebook membership now exceeds 500 million people worldwide – that’s nearly 10 percent of the world’s total population – it’s a worthy reminder to note that, never mind its size or seeming monolithic ubiquity, there…

  • Compelling reasons to mobilize your website

    A few weeks ago, I installed a new WordPress plugin on this site that would enable visitors on mobile devices to find their experience here worthwhile and make it more likely they would stick around on their visit, perhaps engage …

  • Is The Times paywall a viable business model?

    Comment and opinion have intensified in the past few days that The Times paywall isn’t working. And according to The Guardian, the paper has seen a 90 percent fall in its online readership since the paywall went up three weeks…

  • Opportunity knocks for a good UK business podcast

    One of the things that continues to surprise me is the lack of niche business podcasts in the UK. I don’t mean the slickly-produced offerings from mainstream media organizations, of which there are many. By ‘niche,’ I mean podcasts like…

  • No, the press release is not dead

    Four years ago, Silicon Valley blogger and ex-FT reporter Tom Foremski famously declared, "Die! Press release! Die! Die! Die!" Central to Foremski’s passionate argument that the demise of the press release would be welcome – indeed, should be encouraged –…