Is Google Street View a force for good? Not so far as the country of Plato, Aristotle and Homer is concerned. Athens’s data protection agency has banned vehicles manned by Google’s street view drivers from Greece, saying that “We are not going to allow our country to become a Big Brother society.”
Many people agree that [...]
Blade enjoys this typically insightful piece by Todd Defren at PR Squared. Defren makes the very good, but often ignored, point that the brand enthusiasm created among consumers by faultless online customer service will only turn to rage if its telecommunication equivalent is nothing but a succession of automated messages and endless holding for a [...]
There has been a spate of stories of late about how newspapers could implement charging for online content. We’ve opted not to say much on this until the dust settles, not least because little seems to challenge Clay Shirky’s brilliant analysis of the situation, but a piece in the Guardian about the New York Times [...]
A few years ago a magazine with a strange title appeared on newsagents’ shelves. Step forward, Golf Punk, the magazine for punks who like golf, and golfers who like the Sex Pistols, and anyone who likes Bunker Babes. Well, sort of. Now, as the first green shoots of the recession are spotted (copyright: all media, [...]
Could Veronica Wadley sue for libel over the Standard’s ‘Sorry’ campaign? The former editor of the London Evening Standard has made her feelings about new campaign clear, and that she doesn’t like it is not wholly surprising, given that the new incumbents outline a series of alleged failings that could only have happened under her [...]
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.