After I posted about Twitter-connected citizens posting updates on the Iowa caucus, I talked about the event online (using Twitter, natch) with James Geluso, city goverment reporter at the Bakersfield Californian. I asked James if he'd write a guest post for Read More

Marketer David Berkowitz was surprised (and none too pleased) to discover that Blockbuster was using his name and likeness in advertisements that appeared on his friends' Facebook profiles. Berkowitz later found himself unintentionally endorsing an application 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

I don't why I find this snippet interesting. The Raw Story runs a story on the cost a wiretap, or telephone tap to us Brits. Comcast will fix a wiretap for you at $1,000 to install, then its $750 a month to keep on eavesdropping. Not a bad margin Read More

Something a bit strange about following the wise words of Forrester's marketing team blog over many months, and then finding someone from a PR agency - Chris Thilk of MWW - suddenly joining the conversation on the site. All completely transparent Read More

Is there something a little bit too direct about this Datamonitor email pitch to clients and prospects? What would the company accountants say? Then again the discounts are good, sign up for yours here. Read More

Is it possible for a company to be evil and also play cricket? I thought I knew a lot about Microsoft but this Reuters story put a new spin on it (sorry). Disclosure: Microsoft are both a partner and customer, so if anyone wants to read anything Read More

Wikiscanner matches the IP ranges of various companies with edits to Wikipedia that were made from those IP addresses. This information was always available for anyone to see, but going through all of the pages and edit histories and Read More