Edward Snowden: how the spy story of the age leaked out
The full story behind the scoop and why the whistleblower approached the Guardian As he pulled a small black suitcase and carried a selection of laptop bags over his shoulders, no one would have paid...
View ArticleInternet anonymity is the height of chic
In this age of information overload, internet exhibitionism and NSA snooping, is it possible to make yourself unGoogleable? And does it earn you added credibility, as fashion designer Phoebe Philo and...
View ArticleFacebook now part of the #conversation: Social network site to use hashtags...
To some, its use perfectly encapsulates the abject lack of imagination required to use social media: include it before a word or phrase to become “part of the conversation”. But now, in yet another...
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Experts share experience
This is Plymouth -- WELL over 100 estate agents from offices throughout the South West from Penzance to Bristol attended the Property Sharing Experts AGM and conference recently. Arranged and hosted...
View ArticleBruce Lee resurrected for Johnnie Walker whisky ad
Martial arts star revived through CGI 40 years after his death for Chinese ad campaign Bruce Lee has been resurrected, 40 years after he died, in CGI form to appear in a Johnnie Walker whisky ad. The...
View ArticleSarah Silverman's 'anal probe' tweet sparks political row
Comedian's response to US anti-abortion law no laughing matter for Republicans. Elsewhere, Stewart Lee blasts elitism in comedy and Lenny Henry's thespian thunder rages on *This week's comedy news* Not...
View ArticleBe your beautiful selfie – by buying into Dove | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Apparently 40% of women airbrush their online photos. They should just smother on some anti-cellulite gel and stop worrying Last week, perusing some holiday snapshots on Facebook with a friend, I...
View ArticleThe digital hard-sell behind Burberry's traditional image
Luxury labels seeing its fastest growth in online sales as it embraces social media It may have been founded 156 years ago, but Burberry is harnessing ground-breaking marketing techniques to put it at...
View ArticleThe Wright Way goes wrong: how social media is changing TV
As Ben Elton and Peter Kay feel the heat of Twitter's critics and communal viewing makes a comeback, Mark Lawson asks if broadcasters are running scared This week's news that Ben Elton's much-despised...
View ArticleToday's media stories from the papers
Our roundup of the day's media stories, including the BBC payoffs row and the latest IPA Bellwether marketing report If you are viewing this on the web and would like to get our email every morning,...
View ArticleTemenos launches social media monitoring and compliance tool
Swiss fintech vendor Temenos has unveiled SocialComply, a social media monitoring and compliance tool designed to help financial institutions engage ... Reported by Finextra 23 hours ago.
View ArticleGeorge Osbourne ends press pre-briefing of core budget details
Report into leak of budget in error by Evening Standard says the media lack good risk management in age of social media George Osborne is to ban the pre-briefing to media of core budget decisions...
View ArticleHow #activism puts corporations on the back foot | Karl Mathiesen
Social media is saturated with Greenpeace's Shard stunt, but the challenge will be converting coverage into direct public pressure Six activists scaled London's highest skyscraper and the Twitter...
View ArticleChanging times for games makers
BBC Local News: Sussex -- Changes wrought by social media and mobile gadgets look set to make life more difficult for game makers and creators. Reported by BBC Local News 1 hour ago.
View ArticleIPACA Travel Plan Update
A link to a document posted on a Weymouth and Portland Borough Council Planning Department web site and shown as the Proposed Travel Plan for the Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy has been...
View ArticleBoot up: Microsoft v Google org chart, Uber pricing, dance better!, and more
Plus Apple's creepy new Madrid store, Google relents on offline maps, penny investments ahoy, and more A burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team *The Microsoft Reorg v...
View ArticleElement of the week: americium | video | @GrrlScientist
What do nuclear disasters and smoke detectors share in common? This week's element is americium, which has the atomic symbol *Am* and the atomic number, *95*. This element was named for the continent,...
View ArticleCouncils and social media: a desire for digital control still dominates
It's everyone's responsibility to manage a council's online reputation, not just the business of communications teams Social media isn't so difficult. Follow the basic rules (don't do anything stupid;...
View ArticleLady Gaga ARTPOP: can it revive the album-as-app concept?
Release date for album and app confirmed as 11 November, as Lady Gaga promises to 'bring the music industry into a new age' Lady Gaga has announced the official pre-order and release dates for ARTPOP,...
View ArticlePolitical cartoons, trivial and inconsequential? I think not | Russ Radcliffe
The best cartoonists offer far more than gratuitous piss-taking, and use their licence to offend to examine some of the deeper currents and pathologies of our culture In our post-ideological,...
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