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Category: Trends

  • Twitter mainstream

    Quite a bit of commentary in the blogosphere and twittersphere greeted the news that pop icon Britney Spears now has a Twitter account (actually started on October 10). Known as therealbritney, Spears’ presence on the micro-blogging service is the front…

  • A (one-off) future for print

    What an interesting experiment. This morning, a four-page printed newspaper called The Manual was distributed to London commuters at a number of locations in the city. Just 150 copies were printed with each one numbered so making the complete print…

  • The evolution of blogging

    During the past week, Technorati has published a series of articles on the state of the blogosphere in 2008, the first such report in nearly 18 months. Like previous reports from Technorati, this latest one goes beyond just the raw…

  • An acid test for PR practitioners

    I’ve been reflecting on my day in Manchester on Friday at the CIPR Northern Conference at which I led a session on peeking at the future of public relations practice; more on that in a minute. There were some 120…

  • Notables in the 2008 Gartner hype cycle

    Last month, IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2008 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Here’s what it looks like: What I find especially interesting is where on the hype cycle some of these technologies are, especially seeing their current and…

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