Category Archives: Technology

Scoop goes social

Russell Brown mentioned in his Listener column this week that Scoop have a social news site up. So I went in and snuck a peek. Bearing in mind that this is still in alpha, which means that there is still probably a good deal of work to be done to customize and refine the site, [...]

Replacing email

If you accept the proposition that email is broken, (and if you don’t I would be interested to hear how it is working for you) then I thought that it might be worth exploring a few options for working around the problem.
The first thing to acknowledge is that, as much as we would like to [...]

Email is broken

It is official, email is broken. A US based security company estimates that 9 out of 10 emails are spam. That is globally. 90% of email traffic is now inducements to buy junk stock, restore your hair or participate in more lascivious activities…
If you hadn’t realized that it had come to this, if clearing your [...]

Business blogging arrives

If you were in any doubt about the emerging importance of blogging in business communications, then this announcement reported on Wired should effectively put those doubts to rest.
I think that it is safe to assume that we have reached the tipping point when you see these sorts of announcements. An Enterprise Edition of Wordpress strikes [...]

Quotes, votes & hopes…

Looking for a quote to spice up a presentation or speech? Not content to trawl through all those passé Web 1.0 quote sites? Then check out Quotiki.
As the name suggests, it is a wiki for quotes — well, sort of a wiki. That’s right, rather than pay someone to laboriously enter all those quotes into [...]

Eraser Inc

Wired magazine has reported on a new startup, called ReputationDefender (note the lack of a space between the two words, a sure sign that this company is certified Web 2.0™), whose mission in life is to:

…act on your behalf by contacting data hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials that threaten your good [...]

Blogging + Podcasting

What is it about these two (relatively, particularly in the case of blogging – Blogger was launched in 2000) new media that is causing such fundamental changes to the environment in which we operate? And, more importantly, how will these changes manifest in the public sector environment?
If you are still feeling your way around the [...]

THE List

Constantin Basturea has updated his list of worldwide PR blogs, and the current count runs to 555 feeds. That’s right: over 500 PR blog feeds, from Argentina to the US, Australia to Trinidad and Tobago.
So, if you haven’t got into the whole RSS thing, this is one (more) compelling reason to do so. Constantin has [...]

RSS and the web

Russell Brown said, during his talk last Friday – and I am paraphrasing because, unlike the more diligent among you, I wasn’t taking notes (if you want to write in and correct the record, please do) – that he thought RSS was going to play a huge part of the future of the web. I [...]