Writing/Books
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Dinosaur 1: Dorothy Grace Elder still doesn’t get digital media for newspapers
Couple of interesting pieces been kicking about the last few days – both of which continue to show old media’s complete and utter failure to grasp digital media for newspapers. First up, there’s a piece on All Media Scotland about a report on how Finnish financial newspaper Taloussanomat went web-only and what happened to the…
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Basic lesson from the Damian McBride affair…
The whole world is going on about this and the role Guido Fawkes played in it, but what gets me is the sheer basic and bloody incompetence of it all. First rule of anything that might bite you on the backside is that you don’t leave a trail that lets it come back to you.
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Splitting in two – anyone else done it?
Quick post. It’s bugged me since setting up that this site is a bit of everything for me, so I’ve decided I’m probably going to split my sites – one for my mass media/PR/twitter/social media thoughts and one for Craig McGill, the writer because they’re too fairly different markets and areas for me, so if
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Free SMS Twitter on your phone returns to the UK – for Vodafone users – is this their iPhone killer and is it exclusive? (yes it is)
It’s confirmed on the Twitter blog after being broken on Electropig (great scoop lads) and Mashable – very soon free SMS text service for Twitter will return – but only for Vodafone UK customers. Many said that the loss of the free SMS service from Twitter was a blow for the service and there was the
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Is Scotland rubbish at PR?
Simple enough question eh? The reason I ask is that All Media Scotland is talking about PR Week‘s PR Week Powerbook (yup, you can read the whole thing online) – ‘the definitive guide to the most influential people in PR’ – and according to AMS, there’s only a handful or two of Scots in the