January 2007 - Posts

• What is the difference between a GPS system and a mobile phone?

  Luckily, most crooks don't know. Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 23 January 2007 23:41 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Measurement, Technology

• eBay punters warned: beware of flotsam

  I like it when high tech gets wrapped up with the ancient. Freight containers washed to shore from the beached MSC Napoli have posed a moral dilemma for the UK. Local folk have asserted their 'privilege' to scavenge anything that comes to Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 23 January 2007 23:09 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Measurement

• Sun journalist seeks hair weave in interests of readers

  The excellent Response Source gives UK journalists a channel to reach out to PRs and ask questions for stories, get contact info and occasionally fish for gadgets and devices (strictly for review purposes or competition giveaways, of course). Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 05 January 2007 17:07 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Measurement, Trust & Ethics

• Hangover cures: New Year resolution for a blogger

  Before Christmas I was getting a bit weary about the A-list circuit of bloggers that I had tracked. A lot of folk seemed to be getting bit too self important, and the conversation always seemed to be a bit heated to say the least. I was never one for Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 04 January 2007 19:10 by Steve Ellis | 2 Comments Filed Under: Blogging

• Microsoft Ferrari blogging episode: new world meet real world

  The Inquirer offers a good perspective into the Microsoft blogging 'scandal'. If you don't have time to read the full story, the clue is in the headline: Microsoft Ferrari furore is a load of old tosh. Although the sub head is pretty good too: Bloggers Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 04 January 2007 15:48 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Marketing, PR, Trust & Ethics

• Microsoft blogging 'scandal' flags complexity in device review programs

  Microsoft has sparked another ethics debate for bloggers (or is it the same debate coming round again?). Either way, its a very familiar question to anyone working in tech PR: what's a review machine and what's a freebie? Microsoft Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 02 January 2007 09:36 by Steve Ellis | 2 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Marketing, PR