From the Content Writing & Copywriting Blog I get a post about the 50 most influential blogs, referencing the NxE’s list of 50 Most Influential Bloggers. Yes, you read that right: the 50 most influential bloggers, full stop (‘period’ if you’re in the US). No specific subject matter here. The NxE explains itself thus: There [...]
The blogosphere is leaking into the real world
From a policeman blogging anonymously about the privations of bureaucracy we get a Panorama edition; and from the (fictional?) accounts of a prostitute, we get a TV drama. First, the blogging bobby: Stuart Davidson has been revealed as the blogger behind The Policeman’s blog. In it, he described how forces spent inordinate amounts of time [...]
Cadburys vs Phil Collins, Apple vs Microsoft. Or: it seems people in the UK are more interested in Apple now, than in Microsoft, for possibly the first time ever. What a long title that is for a blog post.
I’ve been playing around with Google Trends, a-la-Micropersuasion. Some of it I do get, and some of it I don’t. But one thing I have discovered: people in the UK seem to be looking for Apple more than Microsoft, at the tail-end of a trend that seems pretty constant over the past three years. My Google [...]


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