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Walled Gardens of Ping

If Ping, Apple’s new music social network, is a raging success then I’ll eat my hat. It might survive as a niche for those who live all their lives within the Apple ecosystem but I seriously doubt it’ll be adopted … Continue reading

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Slices of soup – towards a new definition of local media

Back when I was reviewing and distributing zines and other self published paper objects I had a saying. Never think you have a handle on what’s going on or a sense of the scale of the “scene”. There’ll be huge … Continue reading

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Human Corporations

A couple of recent examples of large institutions letting their PR mask slip. Paperchase Nancy Smallwood complains about sexist promotional material in the shop window and is replied to by the Marketing Director of the company, Robert Warden, in a … Continue reading

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My take on social media’s role in the cat-bin-lady-cctv thing

Hey, it’s one of those posts where Pete starts of wanting to make a quick point, gets bogged down in the details and then struggles to come to a snappy conclusion! Enjoy! Okay, here’s the tweet I was expecting to … Continue reading

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Social Media and Globalisation talk

As you’ll no doubt be aware, because you’ll all have bought tickets already, I’m taking part in a debate at the MAC this Thursday entitled Social Media and Globalisation with the two Jons, Hickman and Bounds. The brief was a … Continue reading

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