About a month ago I blogged about the possibility of Twitter becoming a viable commercial venture for its owners. Back then I surmised that Twitter wanted it to be so, as did its venture capital backers who had pumped millions of dollars into the micro blog site with a view to recouping profit.
But I wasn’t [...]

There have been awards for the best blog for some time online, normally generated by those who are fuelling the explosion. However, with the growth of MySpace and other social networking sites, blog awards are now hitting areas of the mainstream.
The sector in question is (unsurprisingly) the music industry and the BT Digital Music Awards [...]

Yesterday, I spent the day at FACT in Liverpool. I was producing a podcast for the Arts Council, who were presenting a one day conference for Arts organisations across the North West.
The day was all about blogging, podcasting, RSS and e-marketing and it was interesting to see the spread of knowledge across the delegates. Some [...]

One of the Time top 50 websites of 2006 is blurb.com. Time concentrates on the site’s service of turning blogs into hard copy books and it got me thinking about what gives information authority.
The web has nurtured the emergence of amongst other things, blogs and citizen journalism and their popularity has proved that people will [...]

A while ago the Web was in the grip of robots. Take two of the classic web searches (no, not those two, this is a family blog) - consumer electronics and celebrities. I’d be searching for a USB powered keyboard warmer and the latest pictures of Brian Blessed, and all I’d get was a hundred [...]

The CIPR Northern conference last Thursday was full of great speakers and new ideas for the PR community - and the most resounding gong was for blogging and the new media techniques.
The new media in this case is the myriad of ways that we can use the Internet to reach all our stakeholders and [...]

There is no more eclectic a community than the world wide web and it is a hot bed of innovation and experimentation. But in order to make money it’s a true test in individualism.
This weekend I heard the news that Fold.com was ironically folding. The Ajax based homepage that began in beta just 3 months [...]

Lately I’ve been spreading myself all over the internet, in the same way as Jonathan Ross is spread across the TV and radio - admittedly without the wit, fame or eyeball-worrying collection of clothes. As I’ve said in previous entries, I’m a big fan of sites like 43things and last.fm, which are busy either recording [...]

It’s very apt to talk about a blogging and podcasting conference right here and if you are one of the many who only currently observe the blogosphere, but are considering throwing yourself in deeper - then this is for you.
Delivering the New PR brings together expertise from Europe and America to discuss the importance of [...]