For the latest entry into the Department of Neologisms, I have decided to buck the trend - nay, the universal lockstep - of referring to the conjugation of Google and Yahoo! as ‘Yahoogle’. From now on, this blog (well, possibly only me) will speak only of Googahoo! There are many reasons behind this:
Entries in 'Media'
They put ‘cool’ in inverted commas…
June 10th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 1 Comment
“Our goal is simple”, declare the boys over at truththroughaction.org, thereby raising the possibility that they are, too. But we carp needlessly, for their goal is a lofty one:
to engage young voters in an innovative and cost effective way, providing them with the sort of entertaining content that reminds them that being Democrat is “cool,” [...]
Barack Obama Social Media Round-Up
June 9th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments
Now that Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, a new conventional wisdom has taken hold in the American political commentariat: it was social media wot won it for Barack. To wit, it was the Obama campaign’s superior leveraging of the tools and processes of social media communications which allowed him to overcome [...]
Watch Live Television While you Work Play
May 29th, 2008 by Ben · 3 Comments
Following recent discussions about the future, or for that matter the sad past, of TV, I’ve just been alerted to another platform for the medium.
Zattoo allows anyone to watch live TV, on PC or Mac, while getting on with other things. Not during work hours though, of course. Unless it’s for research. Wouldn’t dream of [...]
Has the Social Media Release Killed the Press Release?
May 12th, 2008 by Jeremy · 3 Comments
PR professionals are being bombarded daily with pitches for template social media release (SMR) services, often by the same companies - PR Newswire, Businesswire, et al - who distribute traditional press releases to the media.
Perhaps as a result of this, we’re increasingly seeing social media releases used instead of traditional press releases. This isn’t necessarily all [...]