Posts So Far With... iPad Mini Having owned at least one of every generation of iPad so far, what is the iPad Mini like? * Itâs smaller, obviously. But the only time it really feels it is when trying to enter text. You can manage quick notes if you use the âsplit keyboardâ trick and itâ
Posts What happened next... You remember that time I left my job and launched my own independent consultancy? Well, about that. It never actually happened. Despite registering the company, hiring accountants, developing my business plan and doing all those things you do when youâre launching a campaign to take over the world, life
Posts Facebook - What a difference a day makes Yesterday I was just thinking about going back to retroactively add in my technology history to my Facebook timeline after a comment from a Wired reader declared that technology journalists should make theirs public to provide context to their articles. Of course, I was going to set it as private
Posts Fitbit, Klout and your data silhouettes [http://www.flickr.com/photos/83346641@N00/4617759902] I never thought the Fitbit would exactly change my life â indeed, I bought it over the competition precisely because it was the cheapest way to dip my toe in the water of the âquantified selfâ [https://plus.google.com/107128067330174980092/posts/jDpJV4S5Hyw]
Posts Journalists vs Bloggers: How not to do it. > @maxtb [https://twitter.com/maxtb] @tchl [https://twitter.com/tchl] The nuances are invented by aspirants who yearn to work as professional journalists but lack the ability. â Tim Luckhurst (@TCHL) August 9, 2012 [https://twitter.com/TCHL/status/233670107631603713] I enjoy good writing. I enjoy strong investigative writing that
Posts MaxTB on Wired: Fitbit needs to watch its 'quantified' self My latest for Wired UK, considering whether the iPod Nano could simply start to build in quantified self features and make life tough for Fitbit and co. Thereâs another device out there that sits in that price point and has already started ticking some of the boxes that would
max tatton-brown A New Start: MaxTB Ltd. MaxTB Ltd. Two and a half years is a long time. In dog years, thatâs a decade and a half â in PR years, at the rate things are moving, itâs almost certainly more. And in *tech* PR, God only knows â letâs say a century. But anyway, a
Posts Looking Beneath the Surface Initial thoughts on the Microsoft Surface tablets, announced yesterday (read up at The Verge. [http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/18/3095683/microsoft-surface-tablet-versus-ipad-android] ) Warning: There are some generalisations ahead but I think they are ones we can all live with⌠#perksofnotbeingafulltimejourno MARKET Firstly: you arenât going to buy a
Posts Google Zero: the answer to the backlash Recently, there has been a lot of talk about how Google is no longer the company it used to be â for example this ridiculous article [http://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embraces-paid-inclusion-13138] by Danny Sullivan on paid inclusion last month.* From its search page design [http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/world/] to
Posts Email won't send with O2 Broadband? Here's the solution. Having spent days trying to get my work email to send after getting O2 Broadband, a solution emerged from their excellent Twitter customer service. From a ton of internet stalking, I knew it was something to do with the SMTP service being blocked according to a load of reading but
Posts Could OAPs be Apple's Secret Testing Team? Saw the video below and had one of those massive âwhat ifâ moments â How âSteve Jobsâ would it be to test new Apple products on single, old-aged individuals who probably wonât spill the beans? Who else are you going to sit an iPad in front to do user experience
Posts Facebook should update its concept of 'Friends' [https://i0.wp.com/farm1.static.flickr.com/213/451861781_0245fd6060.jpg] With its IPO now public, Facebook is about to enter something of dark zone for announcements â a move which will no doubt leave a void for speculation and rumour among tech writers. So I thought I might jump
Posts Facebook wants you dead Back in September 2010, Facebook went on a really interesting PR offensive â including a flurry [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas?currentPage=all] of activity [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/10/sean-parker-201010?currentPage=all] when The Social Network launched and the announcement of
free speech Free Speech Has Turned a Corner [https://i0.wp.com/www.genderacrossborders.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/silence1.jpg] Last weekend, weâd nothing planned for the Sunday so the girlfriend and I decided to head over to Hyde Park to deride the Winter Wonderland then find something to do on Foursquare. Eventually we settled on
Power Struggles of the Advocate Age - The Social MBA I really never thought Iâd say this after only three years in PR but, come January, Iâm going to be a published author. And I think thatâs both quite humbling and seriously cool. A little while ago, I was kindly invited by Christer Holloman to contribute a
Posts The Age of Digital Inhibitions There has been a lot of conversation in the last couple of years about online privacy. But I think actually thereâs a bigger theme that it all plays into â for me, these years have been just as much about shifting digital inhibitions. What does that mean? Letâs take
Posts Wired Guest Post: Kindle micro-transactions for the win A little while ago, I put a few thoughts together for this blog based on Kindle potentially becoming a platform for saving, reading and buying content web-wide â like Instapaper meets the App Store. Only, instead of publishing it here, I pitched it into technology bible Wired and it was published
Posts How will we Manage without degrees? Management is a skill and a great example of nature and nurture coming together as one. In PR, thereâs no way to skip straight to management. Itâs vocational enough that you simply canât start delegating without the proper understanding of what youâre asking of people, what
Posts How do I filter tweets from TweetDeck? Weâve all seen it â itâs one of those days. A âtrenderâ. Something you have little to no interest in (Big Brother, X Factor, Cricket) will now litter your feed tweet after tweet, with no end in sight. Once youâve heard that Steve Jobs is on the way
Inspiration 5 ways to turn distraction into inspiration Despite everything else that has changed in the workplace over the years, the ability to have good ideas is still the differentiator that can launch your pitch, project or business onto another level. But with access to funnels of information that previous generations couldnât imagine, todayâs challenge has
events Failure Conference: the ultimate success? An interesting slide deck [http://www.slideshare.net/Griner/fail-learning-from-social-media-disaster] came to my attention today via @JordanStone [http://twitter.com/jordanstone], which takes a look at examples where companies have failed on social media. But the key fact is that the story doesnât end there â it then looks at
Death of the Social Media Guru Death of the Social Media Guru: 4 New Signs of the Social Media Try-Hard For some time now, anyone who calls themself a Social Media Guru (or supremo, or magician or ninja or zombie pirate) has quite rightly been derided for tweeting too hard. But in response, this group has upped its game. Meet⌠The âSocial Media Cynic.â Now that these people have become
odds and sods What happens to social profiles after you die? For a while, the topic of what happens to your social media presence after you die [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/death-and-social-media-what-happens-to-your-life-online.ars] has been something of a quandary, with graveyards of Facebook profiles and ceased Twitter accounts littering the web. But in a particularly poignant recent example
Business How to write a CV... with your life Like most people, I like good ideas. So I was delighted to see this Yo Zuck! Tumblr [http://yozuck.tumblr.com/] from âdesigner and thinkerâ,Youssef Sarhan [https://twitter.com/#!/ys], tidily highlighting simple ideas for how heâd improve Facebook. Bit.ly says heâs on 724 clicks [http:
journalism Could PRs become the next best journalists? For years, the world of PR has played host to aliens from the other side of its universe as journo after journo made the move from Editor to âhead of contentâ or similar. And while historically there have been leaps in the opposite direction, itâs generally more like a
