It seems these days corporate crises are played out in full view of the public. The FT Alphaville team live blogged SocGen's conf call this morning - the one in which the management 'explain' where the euro 5bn went. I've never really got Read More

Okay, that was dorky. But I was just looking at the Web site for a musician who performs under the name A Fine Frenzy and was intrigued by how it ties together various types of social media. A lot of the site's content consists Read More

Wal-Mart is venturing into the blogosphere again. Previous forays gave the US retail giant (and its PR agency) a bloody nose. Not being an American, I don't quite understand the degree of antipathy toward Wal-Mart. It certainly seems that if they slip Read More

Ike Pigott of the American Red Cross created a blog to provide media outlets with up-to-date information about the Red Cross response to the disaster. Ike didn't use proprietary software, deployed on the Red Cross network and configured by a developer Read More

Pinsent Mason's legal newswire, OUT-LAW News has a story on upcoming Italian legislation covering "editorial products", that may require bloggers to register with the government simply to publish a private blog. I suspect the keyword is *may*. One has Read More

A naive question I know, but interesting to read that Richard Holway - formerly of Ovum and the eponymously named Richard Holway Ltd - now regards himself as an influencer not an analyst. And that he aspires to be a trusted influencer. I've paid Read More

Every now and again stir up PR agencies (preferably on a Friday afternoon). Then sit back and watch the response. Tags: Tom Foremski, PR is dead (again) Read More

Google just bought Jaiku. Scoble reckons its a giant leap for Google who are prepping the next wave in social media. The comments thread on Scoble's article provides a nice snapshot of sentiment around different social network sites and tools. Next wave? Read More