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More Berocca
Following on from receiving a Berocca blogger stress relief pack last week Rick Lamb and Lolly Borel have more round-ups and analysis of the campaign. Rick actually manages to identify the people...
View ArticleWhen Think Tanks Go Bad: Policy Exchange and agenda-setting
I toyed with the idea of a career in academia for a brief time but decided it wasn’t for me owing to its often detachment from the ‘real world’. I find that taking original ideas and applying them – or...
View ArticleCopyright is criminalising the future
More on Lawrence Lessig’s superb WSJ column to which I linked previously. Lessig’s mini-essay does a superb job at revealing the stupidity of the unthinking, process-obsessed application of copyright...
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Happy 2009 (unless the government gets in the way)
As a rule I try not to 'do' predictions or resolutions at New Year. But I thought I'd flag how the UK Government plans to not only resurrect it's data intercept modernisation programme, but to...
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Metropolitan Police’s turn to social media after G20 policing scandal likely...
As an interesting footnote to my post below about the need for the Metropolitan Police to make significant changes to its organisational communications culture the force's Director of Public Affairs...
View ArticleCrowd-sourcing the future of media
One of the things I [heart] about the internet is its ability to totally democratise the production and distribution of knowledge and information. Reading George Monbiot's (somewhat difficult to...
View ArticleThe Met Police, Twitter and blogger engagement
I posted a while back about comments made to PR Week by the Met Police's corporate comms manager, Dick Fedorico, about their plans for online monitoring and engagement. Well, in advance of this year's...
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EXCLUSIVE: Dick Fedorcio, Met Police blogger engagement and my part in it…
figures likely to show rise….. Queen at First World War memorial….. Childcare tax breaks revolt grows….. DNA profile database plans unveiled….. Washington sniper put to death….. 46% think...
View ArticleDaily Mail snoops on people online and steals their content
A few weeks ago the Daily Mail caused a bit of a brouhaha by accusing brands that monitored social media to help identify and solve customer’s problems of “snooping” and “spying”. I really can’t get...
View ArticleWikileaks analysis Part 1: Some notes on transparency
There's been a lot of discussion of Wikileaks and it's high-profile founder, Julian Assange, recently. Some of it tittle-tattle led mainstream news stuff, and some more reasoned critical analysis. I've...
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