Globalfoundries' mystery news tour
If there is one warning sign of trouble ahead for a company it’s Irrational Cash-Splash Syndrome. The symptoms are a sudden need to spend money on promotion, often organising press trips at short...
View ArticleThis patient needs complex treatment, stat
A release from the UK’s Department of Health came past my inbox the other day. It’s a wonder that anyone reading the report has any clue how to follow its recommendations on the “primary health care...
View ArticleCareful with that nanotech Eugene
Earlier in the decade, the Royal Society led a nanotechnology programme that was meant to settle nerves about Prince Charles’s fear of a grey-goo planet. People held the programme up as an example of...
View ArticleLowest common denominator
Now that the revolution in which the public chooses they want to read is well underway, the complaints are popping up about the public avoiding substantial fare in favour of fast-food consumption....
View ArticleMedia consumption
Once I got past wondering whether there's a maximum height restriction for the San Francisco MUNI (just look at the legroom on those seats), my next thought on looking at this picture was how only one...
View ArticleLink culture
You’d think after 20 years, people would have worked out how to compose links on the World Wide Web. But Nick Carr, who is very exercised about distraction in modern society… Oh look, kittens. …has...
View ArticleDirect action
The often less-than-happy link between journalism and PR is breaking apart as PRs look to do more that is aimed direct at consumers, as reported in the Independent. To be honest, I thought trade/B2B...
View ArticleThe subtext of sub-text
Dave Winer wants to present text that suits skim-readers by folding away extraneous detail. If you look at the example that Winer presents, it's hard to get away from the thought that, although it...
View ArticleMusical misunderstanding
I've started reading You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier. The book has a good premise, not being the techno-utopian screed I'd feared. Anything that takes a pop at the future of the hive mind...
View ArticleTraffic drivers: don't count out email yet
At the News Rewired conference this morning, Twitter got a lot of attention. Journalism.co.uk, who organised the event, were keen to push the #newsrw hashtag. And, naturally, during the Building Online...
View ArticleGet real paid
Tom Whitwell, assistant editor at The Times and responsible for developing the newspaper’s paywalled online site, did not hide his irritation at some of the helpful advice dished up by internet...
View ArticleNokia: a tale of two analyses
Two ex-Nokia executives have given their verdict on what ails the Finnish phone maker in its failure to make any headway not only in the US market but against the onslaught from Apple and the clones...
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Disposable ebooks
Against the shiny, glowing iPad, the latest iteration of the Amazon Kindle is not much to look at. But the price, look at the price. $140 for the basic model. The device is now within spitting distance...
View ArticleBlacklisting Cision
Just under a year ago, Cision unilaterally decided to subscribe me to its ‘wire service’. They didn’t ask; they just harvested the email address from my site and started relaying press releases. It...
View ArticleHold the front page: virtualisation isn't new apparently
I'm just posting a release emailed to me as I haven't found an online version of the release yet. I'm not sure that there are many articles that claim virtualisation was invented recently, particularly...
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