A Gorkana alert tells us that a certain well-known adult magazine – perhaps, even, the oldest of its kind – has just re-launched its website as an ad-funded model and made the bulk of its content free to users.
The alert continues to say that The overhaul will see it offer a dozen new [...]
It may seem churlish, but until now, when she has but weeks to live, Blade was not overly impressed by Jade Goody. She appeared to him to be a rather unreconstructed soul, one prone to shooting first and forgetting to ask questions later, unless she was told to by her advisers.
The diagnosis a few months [...]
Blade receives an email all the way from California, from Joel T. Smith. It alerts him to Newseum, a relatively new site which enables you to see the front page of newspapers worldwide. It’s excellent, as you’ll see if you click here.
Who came off worst when Mark Selby was served with a claim for £14,000 by George Barmby on live television – the ’snooker ace’, and now defendant to a claim in debt, or his former manager?
The Mail on Sunday has the story here. Many of those commenting online suggest that Barmby could at least have [...]
There’s an interesting piece by Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger in today’s Media Guardian on moves currently afoot to reform Britain’s libel laws.
Blade’s initial response to it was to sigh wearily and mutter, as does the narrator in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy, that “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” Everything that Mr Rusbridger [...]
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.
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud, 1930 – present, cricket player and commentator.