The Times tells us today that swathes of Wikipedia’s editors are going ‘dead’ – i.e., abandoning the site. Worse, they’re not being replaced, for it seems that the Wikipedia bubble may have burst. As the Times puts it: “Research reveals that the volunteers who create the pages, check facts and adapt the site are abandoning [...]
Some of the super-rich have threatened (Shouldn’t that be ‘promised’? Ed.) to leave Britain if the 50p income tax rate is introduced. Not for them fast food in a recession, that’s for sure, but what we want to know is this: is their mooted exodus occasioned by principle or finance? We assume it must be [...]
The government’s long anticipated attempt to combat web piracy has assumed something resembling reality in the form of the just-published Digital Economy Bill. Under the Bill, whose provisions are reported by the Independent, internet service providers (ISPs) will be obliged to send letters to those suspected of online piracy. The owners of [...]
The recession is not all doom and gloom. Well, not if you’re a purveyor of fast food. According to this story from the FT, fast food outlets – especially, it seems, KFC – are making hay as more and more people turn to them for their dietary needs.
Does this mean that when we’re finally free [...]
The Guardian headline today: “The Great EU Stitch-Up”.
The Mail headline today: “The Great EU Stitch-Up”.
Are the two papers, perchance, related? We think we should most definitely be told.
Pictured courtesy of Press Gazette’s Photostream: Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, contemplates a prawn cocktail as he awaits colleagues from the Guardian for morning editorial conference.
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
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In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn.
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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.