Wired's Chris Anderson says Web 2.0 is dead!
Remember when Web 2.0 was all about creating, sharing and collaborating to produce Long Tails that favoured small players
Tony Blair got the PR for his book right
There's been a hullabaloo about how Tony Blair's gift of £4.6 million profit from his
HP, Hurd, soft porn & the morality game
The Board that once backed Carly Fiorina decides to ditch her, but the news leaks. Yet only fellow Board members were in the know. So she orders private detectives to spy on the Board to uncover the traitor. Before they can report, Carly's fired.
Real-life boss tops Martin Lukes for silliness
Here's a tale highlighting why the C-suite requires speechwriters. Lucy Kellaway at the FT was accused of moving
How PRs advise firms to grovel and deceive
Making apologies and promises to reform and move on just because the media (or campaigners) demand it, risks undermining the trust people place in genuine apologies.
Mrs Obama puts BP's oil spill in perspective
Imagine the outrage if gaffe-prone BP chief Tony Hayward had said yesterday that the Gulf Coast places were "as
Google comes of age in China
Trust in Google was built on the premise of an ambiguous "Do No Evil" slogan and on the utopian notion of enabling unhindered free flow of data and information across the web. Yet Google has always been a pragmatic, profit-driven firm. China exposes the limits of its flimsy ground standing.
Proud to pay for The Times-online
I took a peculiar pleasure today in helping Rupert Murdoch turn The Times in to a club for grown-ups who
Stockholm Accords are useless for PR's future
The last in my trilogy on the Stockholm Accords is dedicated to rebutting the authoritarian notion that public relations professionals
Zurich is party city, not a sleepy village
Robert Crampton opines in The Times that Zurich "scores top marks for utter bone-breaking tedium". I guess he&
Three cheers for the Mighty Pru's shareholders
Prudential CEO Tidjane Thiam has just learnt the hard way that he is accountable first and foremost to his shareholders.
Will BP's regulators share the blame?
Who's to blame for the blowout in the Gulf? It's a fair bet that the corporations
