In what must go down as the most obvious bit of reporting since the Daily Mail ‘flipped’ in 1939 (to declare that Hitler was actually not such a ‘good egg’ after all), the Times has broken the world exclusive that, yes, I.T. workers really are a bit more wheezy and sweaty than other professionals.
Why? Because of the lack of exercise? The terrible, snacky on-the-go food? The isolation of IT offices allowing people to eat what they want, when they want? A lack of peer ... Read Full Story
As I am busy drumming up interest in the Cellular 25 event at the Science Museum in January, I have become extra-aware of what is happening in the mobile world.
So, I was particularly taken last week by the story that 10 million of us Brits are surfing the internet on our mobiles and downloading apps is the second-fastest growing activity. This tops emailing, texting and picture messaging. At the same time this Nielsen report also stated that only one in seven handsets is a smartphone –... Read Full Story
The Mos have arrived and, somehow, we’ve managed to make ourselves look even stupider than last year. For those who had managed to erase the image of last year from their mind, here’s a reminder.
This year Alex has stuck with the Wurzels/farmer look and I’ve gone for what can only be described as a ‘low budget adult film star’ look. Suffice to say it’s not a good image, although on the plus side any time I catch a glimpse of my reflection it makes me giggl... Read Full Story
Every week there’s another smart phone, we were just debating Dell’s latest entry to the market and who’s making it for them (Taiwan or China). And then at the end of a fun-filled couple of rather intensive days here in technology PR land, a Twitter buddy spots this Xphone and it cheered me right up! Read Full Story
There have been some truly memorable PR stunts that will stick in the mind forever and that raised the awareness of a particular campaign or company beyond all expectations. The tourism Queensland advert for the ‘best job in the world‘ being one. However there are some that should never have left the meeting in which they were conceived. Read Full Story
Plenty of updates on the journo listing page here including John Walko retiring after countless years in the business and changes at the French technology magazine Electronique Read Full Story
A picture may paint a thousand words but what I enjoy are the images that spring to mind from snippets read in a newspaper, and this week I have had two corkers.
The first was a letter in the Telegraph on the subject of what grandparents are called by their children’s children. It was an ongoing chain of letters that only DT readers (and Wogan listeners) could come up with. However, the one that made me chuckle was the computer literate grandmother who was known as ‘technogranny’ to her nea... Read Full Story
TweetPhoto, the real-time photo sharing site and branch off from Twitter, today saw inky illustrator Johanna Basford use the photo sharing platform to create one of her distinctive black and white silk drawings with a ’social networking edge’.
The work was described as ‘documenting the internet’s hive mind’ (Metro). The artist was open to item suggestions from Twitter users to be included in the drawing by simply tweeting any item they’d like to see in the finished picture along w... Read Full Story
I felt the death knell for Facebook last week when I saw a small ad from Marks & Spencer suggesting that the public visited its Facebook site to see what it was up to. M&S on Facebook! How far is that from social networking? When I mentioned it to under 30 somethings that live their lives through its pages there was a definite “No way, have to move on”. Read Full Story
