Archive for the ‘Peppermint PR’ Category

A high street renaissance?

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Amid the spoils of a slow news day – awash with hysteria about Cameron’s baby and yawnsome analysis of X factor’s first episode – not to mention a cat in a bin (it is August after all), I was heartened to read a small feature that will hopefully have much ...

Will we lose our privacy to find our friends?

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

For years we’ve been sharing with Facebook (and the rest of cyberspace) who, what, when and how, but the time has now come to say where. Facebook’s newest service, ‘Places’, is the core offering of sites such as Foursquare and Gowalla. Not one to be outdone, Facebook has launched its own ...

A lesson in ‘politwits’

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Day in, day out, high profile tweeters continue to grab headlines, and the latest is president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. In terms of international politics, he certainly doesn't march to the same beat as the majority of his counterparts. In fact, it's fair to say that his controversial politics command ...

The Visual Code

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

In a world so dependent on images, it is no surprise that some of the most poignant memories in history have been immortalised with iconic visual representations.  American author, Susan Sontag, claimed that: “Photography has become one of the principal devices for experiencing life.”Images are arguably one of the most ...

Facebook owes us

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Facebook is officially the most used website in the world. 500 million of us are logging on and it costs us absolutely zilch. There's been press coverage aplenty promising that we'll never have to pay to use the site. That's nothing new, but what if I told you that Facebook ...