Category Archives: media

Joining up the dots: Part 1

By Jonathan | Published: October 7, 2008
So, the global economy is experiencing a spot of bother. Yet online advertising spend in the UK is on the up. But, advertising itself looks to be pretty doomed these days. So doomed that it’s even starting to point fun at itself. And over half of social media campaigns implemented by Fortune 1000 companies will fail. Press releases [...]
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Blogging FAIL

By Jonathan | Published: September 28, 2008
One of the top rules of blogging: never delete posted content, just update it. Jason Calcanis has dropped a clanger with his predictions that “50-80% of the venture-backed startups currently operating will shut down or go on life-support (i.e. 3-4 folks working on them) within the next 18 months” and to make matters worse – [...]
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Esquire E Ink front cover

By Jonathan | Published: September 8, 2008
Wow. This is pretty cool. Exciting and a bit scary – high “more adverts shouting at us from more places” potential. [via Engadget so you;ve probably already seen it – and actually originally a guy at Poke called Will)
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Get on with TechCrunch UK

By Jonathan | Published: August 22, 2008
Amongst all the PR bashing that’s going on right now, Mike Butcher over at Techcrunch UK (which unbelievably this blog was shortlisted alongside in the Computer Weekly Blog Awards web 2.0/business category which Mike deservedly won in the end) has posted this incredibly useful list of pointers for PR peeps to help increase their chances [...]
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i ♥ anne frank bookz

By Jonathan | Published: March 28, 2008
Just catching up on my feeds and this popped up – a glimpse into what teenagers love and hate reading. Some interesting stuff in there, if a bit random – including the fact that reading “My own blog or fan fiction” comes in at number 4 most loved and that Facebook is number 9 most [...]
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La Times on Lifecasting/Qik

By Jonathan | Published: March 23, 2008
The LA Times reports on lifecasting and Qik.com, the software I got all excited about earlier this week when a live video stunt took place in Norway using Qik. Jason Calcanis is interviewed in the piece and besides calling himself a “nerd who builds websites” he predicts that “The worst moment in almost everybody’s life [...]
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More stats charting rise of digital

By Jonathan | Published: February 25, 2008
Jemima Kiss lists out the latest ABCes for the main newspapers. No surprises that the numbers are up year on year across the board, but as she points out, very interesting that more and more so lots of traffic is from outside the UK. More fuel for the fire in my mind which tells me [...]
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My Week In Media

By Jonathan | Published: January 4, 2008
Happy new year, have a good Christmas (?) etc to everyone. Ged tagged me over Christmas to help fuel the “My Week In Media” meme that came off the back of this and this. Back then I was sat on a sofa in Northumbria with a patchy broadband connection so I decided to leave a [...]
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MyFootballClub gets green light

By Jonathan | Published: November 13, 2007
BBC is reporting that the website MyFootballClub, set up to buy a stake in Ebbsfleet United and help run it, has been given the go ahead and a deal struck. Great idea that I’m sure you’ve heard about already. This is surely the start of a lot more exciting things like this. Maybe we could [...]
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PR Spam?

By Jonathan | Published: October 30, 2007
Chris Anderson blocks email from PR people and lists their email addresses online. There’s someone from Bite on there too, which is nice. Could this be the first signs of a new trend?
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