Archive For 2006

To follow my Top 5 of 2005 I present my Top 6 of 2006. Books My reading has been dramatically affected by my no longer working in London. Where I would easily read a book a week commuting in I have read about three books since leaving my job in London in July. Not good…… Continue Reading ›

It makes such a refreshing change when a company a) has a personality and b) feels able to express that personality in their communications with their customers. I recently ordered the new Thomas Dolby CD and DVD from CDbaby and just received this fantastic email to let me know they had shipped. Subject : CD Baby… Continue Reading ›

The Beatles new album Love was released today. Of course, it’s not really a new album but a collection of classic Beatles songs that form the soundtrack for the new Cirque de Soleil show in Las Vegas of the same name. Disappointed? Don’t be… this is no ordinary compilation album. This is the Beatles as… Continue Reading ›

The mission of Google is to organise the world’s data; well, it’s dawned on me that they are doing a jolly good job with mine… I’ve been using Google as my search engine since it was launched. I’ve been using Gmail as my secondary email account for a year or two. I use GoogleTalk as my… Continue Reading ›

Zeldman has a great post on what Web 2.0 means to different journalists and the wider interwebosphere™. He’s created a great Web 2.0 thinking game to illustrate Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0; here are a few examples: Web 1.0: AOL buys Time Warner. Web 2.0: Google buys YouTube. Put another way: Web 1.0: New media… Continue Reading ›

I’ve worked in two companies now where the idea of a blog has been mooted. I think corporate blogs are, on the whole, a terrible idea. Unless genuinely written by an employee (who says it has to be an executive after all) with ability, charisma, and genuine interest in blogging, they are going to be… Continue Reading ›