Keeping your vote safe and secure: A story from inside the US 2020 election
Democracy is under attack. These attacks become particularly noticeable – and important – whenever there is an election taking place. ...
22 June 2021
digital
2020
Bridging the digital divide – a new chapter in the life of the public library
Books are amazing things: little worlds of knowledge or fantasy you can pick up and take with you. Libraries have...
29 November 2020
2013
The war for digital hearts and minds
There’s been a bit of a turf war going on in the advertising/marketing/PR world for several years now, and it’s...
25 February 2013
2012
The time is running out for vanity metrics
Social media has come a long way. You can tell this by its ubiquity. Back in the late 1990s when...
12 November 2012
Tweeting while naked
Not literally naked. Good lord, no. But figuratively speaking – as in the Emperor’s new clothes. There was a story...
8 September 2012
2011
In praise of the front page corpse shot
The Roman poet Horace said: “pale death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.”...
21 October 2011
Telling stories, human nature and social media
Since the very dawn of time itself mankind has told stories. Ok, maybe not since the dawn of time perhaps...
28 September 2011
Social media FUD and no comment 2.0
It’s one of the most worn-out things for someone like me to say but some clients are so gripped by the...
10 August 2011
Democracy, disintermediation & dining out at the all-day information buffet
Remember when you watched the TV news in the evening to hear about important stuff for the first time? Remember...
30 June 2011