Earlier, Blade commended the rapidity with which Twitter covered the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. And, like many of those who work in the Web 2.0 space, Blade has been known to make a virtue of speed for speed’s sake, almost as if the need for speed were not a hackneyed line from a Tom Cruise [...]
Blade will remain unconvinced by Twitter’s name for a long time. But he is increasingly impressed by its capabilities.
As this story in the Guardian confirms, Twitter’s “Mumbai thread provided a stream of snippets, not all accurate, from observers on the ground, with details of casualties, sieges, gunfights, and even the suspected names of terrorists.”
Elsewhere, the [...]
Is it possible, for all the upsides to Web 2.0, that some people might take their commitment to it a tad too far?
Blade muses over this having just read an illuminating piece on Brand Republic about Web 2.0 guru Rohit Bhargava. The piece is headlined ‘A Life Lived on Twitter’, and if he’s not on [...]
Blade applauds the idea behind a February 2009 conference on Wikinomics.
‘Wiki-what?’, says those for whom Web 2.0 is nothing but Woe 2.0.
Blade is happy to reveal that the Wikinomics Forum on 19 February at the Grange City Hotel will attempt to provide “a roadmap for doing business in the 21st century.” The blurb sets the [...]
Thanks to the intriguing On Being a Black Lawyer blog – commenced by American lawyer Yolanda Young on the day Barack Obama was elected US President Elect – Blade learns that the 6th Annual Retreat for the National Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division takes place in May next year at the Bourgainvilleas Beach Resort in [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn.
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Edmund Burke, from the Preface to Brissot’s Address.