Words Dept.

Since there are loads of helpful social media evangelists out there providing handy hints about what to do in order to get the most out of social networking, I thought I’d buck the trend with my own unhelpful selection of the thirteeen (deliberately Web 2.0-ish random number) things people do on Twitter and Facebook that [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Letter to GMG Regional Media’s Mark Dodson from MEN NUJ chapel Stephen Fry: The internet and I – Rather good quotes in a warm and thoroughly non-geeky style. YouTube: Boards of Canada set to 80s TV adverts

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Guardian: Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds: the worst film ever made? – Looks kind of frightening. Datadial: Ryanair, online PR, reputation problem – Why do Ryanair have to be such a bunch of pricks? A “spiky” brand identity is one thing but this is just stupid. Guardian: Facebook et al risk [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. More Noel Edmonds fun (video) George Monbiot: Just what exactly do you stand for, Hazel Blears – except election? – A spectacular and well-aimed rant MEN: Council’s Facebook ‘no mates’ – Stockport council has only six Facebook friends.

A selection of my latest bookmarks. How unhealthy is a doner kebab? Daily Express marks Barack Obama's first day … with a wraparound car ad It’s Time for Facebook to Die – Could Facebook be on its last legs? And what of Twitter's future?

Happy New Year to all 14 of my unique visitors! The beginning of 2008 is a chance to reflect on the fact that in the six months that I’ve been writing this blog, virtually no-one has read it. Despite my transparent attempts to build traffic by baiting Andrew Gilligan (which did, at least, result in [...]

I’m slightly behind the times on this one but I found the story about the government minister faking a photo at Tameside Hospital rather thought-provoking and not especially scandalous. On one level, I found it quite amazing that this particular piece of digital manipulation was ever considered good enough to be sent out. Culture Secretary [...]

Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone company, has pulled all its “skyscraper” adverts from Facebook today because one of them was positioned on the British National Party’s page. Vodafone’s official line is that it doesn’t want to be associated with “any” political party, although something tells me the BNP’s “send ‘em back where they come [...]

Since Friday, I seem to keep reading stuff about something called Parakey. I can’t quite figure out what it is other than some kind of operating system that “bridges the gap between information on the web and the desktop”. No mainstream news source I’ve so far come across (and admittedly I haven’t looked very hard) [...]