Featured, Health
Motivation, Productivity Pre – Exams Tips
As exam time and coursework deadlines approach, I thought it would be good to compile a list of my top 3 motivational and productivity tips. These are basically a combination of various bits and pieces I have read in recent years, but I hope it helps. 1. Perfection leads to procrastination If you really think [...]
Featured, Public Relations & Marketing, Social Media
To be or not to be social… That is the question
It goes without saying that organisations are often confronted by tough decisions, perhaps not always as eloquent a decision as that confronted by Shakespeare. Social media is another one of those decisions. It seems as though some organisations have the fear. They fear that using social media may have unintended consequences, such as perhaps galvanising [...]
Featured, Technology / Science
The future of the Web Browser
The browser hasn’t changed much since its first appearance as WorldWideWeb by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, it’s still a program with roughly the same dynamics, it’s still the same old browser but tuned up and more secure (hopefully your not using IE 6 :p) to take advantage of new technologies such as flash, Java, PHP, [...]
Featured, Social Media
Facebook Timeline feature full of Privacy issues
Over the last few months I have been BETA testing the new Timeline profile page for Facebook and have started to ask myself who benefits from all this information? It is a very interesting platform but I’m very worried about the privacy side to this. I have had Facebook for over five years and now [...]
Health
Self Esteem vs. Health
Posted on 11 February 2012
In the consumer society we live in today, it is no wonder why there are so many people with eating disorders. Just in the UK, 1.1 million people are reported to have some sort of eating disorder (source). It’s true that there are loads of campaigns about healthy body image, such as Dove (see image [...] Continue Reading
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Self Esteem vs. Health
Posted on 11 February 2012
Hello Blog readers, I have been getting some great feedback on the blog, so before I go into my new topic, I would like to thank all the readers and all of you who have given feedback. I hope you are finding it useful, and please keep the feedback coming. I welcome suggestions of topics [...] Continue Reading
Technology / Science
Apple Mobile Market
Posted on 09 February 2012
So it seems like Apple has a stranglehold over the mobile phone market. Surely this growth cannot continue. Continue Reading
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The Bird That Flew Away From Freedom of Expression
Posted on 01 February 2012
Twitter has recently been in the news, although not for reasons resembling those of why they caught medua attention in 2011. No new winter arab uprising. No super injunction being exposed. No. Twitter have effectively allowed for censorship to prevail against freedom of information around the world. Twitter have now allowed governments to censor post [...] Continue Reading
Technology / Science
Stop Complaining and Do Something!
Posted on 30 January 2012
With the current media frenzy regarding SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA, it is difficult to wonder what the future of the Internet will be. Although I hope none of these policies pass, if they did, I think fellow Internet surfers would find their way around these laws and still share content. In the end, the only [...] Continue Reading
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Living in the Cloud
Posted on 27 January 2012
Megaupload has caught much media attention with its shutdown. This issue brings up a larger and broader threat. The situations shows us just how easily content stored online can be taken down. It is important to remember that although Megaupload may have been used for piracy, it was primarily a form of online content storage [...] Continue Reading
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Stop Complaining and Do Something!
Posted on 24 January 2012
With the current media frenzy regarding SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA, it is difficult to wonder what the future of the Internet will be. Although I hope none of these policies pass, if they did, I think fellow Internet surfers would find their way around these laws and still share content. In the end, the only [...] Continue Reading
Staff pick
Martin Niemoller, 1946
Posted on 20 January 2012
In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I was a trade unionist; And then they came for the jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a jew; And [...] Continue Reading
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CES 2012… Conferences… The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.
Posted on 13 January 2012
As CES 2012 comes to an end. It’s a good idea to consider who got what right and what wrong. We begin with Panasonic… It seems as though they really need help with media training and the performance and running of a show for the trade and consumers. First of all, you must focus on [...] Continue Reading
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Interesting insight into what various player in the UK media talked about in February 2011 on Twitte
Posted on 11 January 2012
Staff pick
Relationships, Journalism & PR
Posted on 10 January 2012
There seems to be a common misunderstanding among people about the nature of journalism and public relations. It seems as though journalists are often being viewed as purveyors of truth, where PR practitioners don’t care too much about truth. This is a vast misconception. In fact both sides often have their own agenda. Whether it [...] Continue Reading
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