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Month: <span>May 2011</span>

Month: May 2011

Is there still (was there ever) no such thing as bad PR?

Those responsible for various recent super injunctions might well be asking themselves this question. And I suspect that a “certain Premiership football player” will have no doubt whatsoever that there is such a thing as bad PR. There certainly appears to be such a thing as bad PR advice from …

The Lost Books Of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason

Bleached white. Saturated turquoise. Vivid green. Disjointed fragments of story. Flashbacks. Elusive snatches of dialogue whispered into half-asleep ears. Portents. Licentiousness. Brilliant, evocative and economic storytelling. Heaven. Hell. Death (lots of death). Immortality.  Irony. Poignancy. Allegory. And the odd LOL. That’s my word association tag cloud for The Lost Books …

The “cool” tweet from the summit of Everest that leaves me cold.

I beg to differ. This is uncool in so many ways. On the face of it, it shouldn’t be uncool. But it is. Climbing Everest is cool. Being able to share your experiences with others in real time is cool too. But, put those things together, and the effect is …

Using natural selection for a Twitter cull.

  Culling is usually only required when natural selection, or more precisely nature itself, fails to control relative populations of species in an ecosystem. It’s either natural selection or culling. One or t’other. Well I’ve used both to reduce the number of people I follow on Twitter. One of my …