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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to London, world capital of reputation laundering. Really?

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Sometimes you read a news story and just can’t get it out of your head. I’ve been mulling over the Rwanda PR piece since I read it earlier this week.    The whole article was bringing into question the ethics of London PR firms promoting, and I quote, ‘foreign regimes with some ...

College-room project that turned into a global phenomenon – Facebook hits the 500 million users mark

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Facebook announced that it now has 500 million users which means (according to The Guardian) that a whopping 43 per cent of Brits are regularly logging on. You can’t argue with that! We all remember Rage Against the Machine beating X-Factor’s latest hopeful (it was that Joe guy, right?) to the ...

The Vee-dub camper van hits 60 – but what makes a brand like this iconic?

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

A photo of a VW camper van grabbed my attention on the BBC News website yesterday and I read on to discover that it’s celebrating its 60th birthday. It’s the kind of picture that has serious pulling power and it got me thinking about what it was that made the camper ...