Sir Martin Sorrell is one of the Today programme’s go-to men. Every three months, when his company’s quarterly results are announced, the WPP CEO will appear on Radio 4′s flagship news show and offer his economic state of the nation. WPP…
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
The Me, Me, Me Blog Post
I think I’ve finally got this blogging business cracked. Self-indulgent? Check. The worst kind of vanity publishing? Check. All about me, me, me? Check. From 12 November I am joining the New Statesman as deputy editor. I’ll be working under…
Posted in Journalism, Magazines
Not All Social Media Is Digital
Late last night a hand-delivered letter dropped through my door. It began: Dear colleague, You should have received a ballot paper to vote for a new editor of the Journalist – the NUJ’s magazine. I live in Honor Oak, SE23, and have…
links for 2009-10-28
Did BNP’ers game YouGov to inflate support? One of the admins at the BNP website recently set up a page on its social network to encourage people to game YouGov. It is titled: ‘YOUGOV – Let’s increase BNP’s support in…
Posted in Uncategorized
YouGov Responds to BNP Gaming Claims
Earlier today this blog reported claims that BNP were seeking to ‘game’ YouGov’s online polling. Since then YouGov has been in touch to put its side of things. Here’s the statement in full: There have been reports in parts of…
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‘BNP Gaming YouGov’ Adds Another Chapter To Question Time Blockbuster
The BNP/Question Time story arc has followed a fairly predictable trajectory. It began with several weeks of pre-show outrage mixed with libertarian nose-holding. This was followed by on the day protests, the 105 minutes of television, the reaction and the backlash to the…
What’s The Future Of Syndication?
‘Prisoner Of The Taliban‘ looked like a compelling, if slightly familiar, read. Spread across pages one, two and three yesterday’s Sunday Times News Review section, it was an American journalist’s account of his seven-month kidnap in the Afghan desert. A…
Tweets, Pokes And Uploads: Watching Social Media’s Growth In Real-Time
Twenty hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, nearly a million blog posts each day, 600,000 new members of Facebook and around four million tweets via Twitter every 24 hours – some social media numbers are quite hard to…
The Week’s Most Read Posts (19 – 25 Oct 2009)
Jan Moir Meet ‘The Big Gay Who Runs The Internet’ Lots of column (and blogosphere) inches are being written in response to the suggestion that the Jan Moir backlash was an orchestrated campaign. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com] Stephen Fry Attacks ‘Rubbishy, Cheap And…
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How ‘Nutter’ Griffin Matched Nobel Obama
While much of the Nick Griffin / Question Time chat was happening on Twitter, some people went straight to the source to express their views. The BBC reported 10,000 comments were left on the Have Your Say section of the…
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