Ad-​​Block, Game Theory and The Guardian

I read two blog posts this morning that seemed to be crying-​​​​out to be con­nected together. So all credit to their authors, and a tiny bit to me for the meeting.

The first was by Jamie Madigan, who writes the terrific Psychology of Video Games blog, looking into the reasons people do (or

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Book Review: Blogging to Drive Business

Many thanks to Pearson Education for sending me two recent books about blogging for review. The first of these is Blogging to Drive Business by Eric Butow and Rebecca Bollwitt. It seems that Eric has written the more business and strategy-​​​​centric chapters, and Rebecca the more prac­tical inform­a­tion about

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Downtime

As you may know, I launched the news­stand magazine What Laptop & Handheld PC (as it was ori­gin­ally called) back in the day — 1999, to be exact. And I have grave mis­giv­ings about the whole affair.

One of the most popular mar­keting messages that advert­isers were pushing then about mobile tech­no­logy, and they still are

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A Last Note on the Carphone Warehouse Incident

If you need the history — I had a big problem with the company (blogged here), which was resolved the day after I wrote a post about it on this site (blogged here).

A lot of people might see this as a victory for blogs and bloggers. I’d agree, sure. But, on reflec­tion, I think it’s more of a victory

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Well, It made me laugh

Fake Steve Jobs is rather more concise than me:

The Borg-​​​​Yahoo merger won’t work. Here’s why. It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-​​​​yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster.

Flog More Stuff 2.0

Public Relations in the Web 2.0 era? A new white paper has been produced by Squiz in asso­ci­ation with Text 100 PR called Communications 2.0. It’s avail­able here (regis­tra­tion required).

The paper dis­cusses what Web 2.0 is, how busi­nesses might adopt some of the approaches it brings, how their PR will change as a result and

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