Back after a well earned break, I’m going to have another bash at providing a weekly round-up of tech, media & marketing. Tweet As… Twitter had a busy week, launching a new product and two updates to its ad systems.…
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A Week’s A Long Time #10
Tagged with: apple, crowdsourcing, facebook, Facebook Home, google, journalism, reddit, Twitter, Twitter #Music
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Nothing Crap About Educating People
So, earlier this month, Facebook revealed that laptops belonging to its staff had been infected by malware. Whilst Facebook was adamant that no user data had been compromised, a large number of publications saw fit to cover the story. Which…
A Week’s A Long Time Vol. 7
Once again, a week here is more like a fortnight. I was on holiday last week and couldn’t drag myself away from the pool to jot down any thoughts on the latest developments in tech. But this week, I hope…
Tagged with: Adidas, facebook, Instagram, journalism, Nike, Oddbins, Paddy Power, Publishing, Specsavers, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The New York Times, Twitter
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At Least The New York Times Doesn’t Abuse Its Readers
It’s like stealing candy from a baby. Except, I don’t want to. I want the baby to grow up and, I don’t know, learn to eat its greens. Or something. Anyway. Earlier today, Alexia Tsotsis wrote a post on TechCrunch,…
The Paucity Of Tech Comment & Analysis
Last week SEOmoz announced that, after a couple of failed attempts, it had raised $18 million in funding. Now, I’m a fan, so I’m, biased, but to me this was a great story. A company that, to use the tech…
Tagged with: AllThingsD, Blogging, journalism, PandoDaily, Techcrunch, The Economist, The Guardian, The Kernel
Posted in Publishing
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Reasons To Be Cheerful (About The Press), Part 3
Rand Fishkin (a lovely guy and, I’d like to think, a friend of mine a great friend whom I wish I saw more of*), recently wrote a post on his personal blog entitled A Healthy Dose Of Fear Is Appropriate…
A Reader’s View Of Techcrunch
At this point, writing a post about the ongoing fiasco at Techcrunch is a bit like pointing out that bears like doing their business outdoors or that the chap who lives in Rome with the big hat happens to be…
Tagged with: Arianna Huffington, ethics, journalism, Michael Arrington, Paul Carr, Techcrunch
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Of Content And Cookies: Why The Web Should Go On Strike
There can be no doubt that the biggest issue to arise over the last few years, in terms of threats to technology companies, is the rising level of concern, both in terms of public opinion and political attention, around privacy.…
Dear Paul Carr, SEO Wants To Be Your Friend
I like Paul Carr. For those of you who don’t know he’s a British tech journalist, currently based in San Francisco, but who tore a trail through the British dotcom scene of the noughties, and which he described in his…
All The News That’s Fit To Link
During the recent UK elections, The Guardian took to using a rolling-blog style of article to keep readers up-to-date with all the latest news around the campaign: in the frantic days during which the Tory/Lib Dem coalition came into being,…
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