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Puppies and the gatekeepers of misery

Show number 233 of This American Life has an interesting segment about Dan FitzSimmonds who tries to set up his own cable network. (You can listen to it from the site – it starts 7 minutes in and lasts for 15 minutes.) It’s interesting because the show was first broadcast in 2003 and is talking [...]

Death to Social Media

It’s been about 18 months since the term “Social Media” first nudged its way into being the answer to the question “what is it that I do?” It’s always been a marriage of convenience rather than one born of true love – I needed a label, something broader than “blogger” (I’ve always maintained that the [...]

Influence is weird

This morning I found myself on a list of Birmingham’s most influential Twitter users blogged by one of our PR agencies. Which was nice. Now, please don’t take this as me being blasé or modest but I think it’s important that we realise how the nature of “influence” has changed and is incredibly hard to [...]