Social media stereotypes: you are what you share on

A fun piece of research from Prospect Magazine has concluded that UK twitter users are mostly liberal bleeding heart environmentalists that hate the Daily Mail.
It hasn’t really surprised anyone who has followed the various scandals which have recently spread across twitter: their consistent element has been a desire to put a boot into the right wing [...]

Twitter spam from motelrocks - how not to do social media marketing

So last week I got tweeted by someone called fashionlover090.
“I used to love asos! Have you discovered Motelrocks yet? They have 20% off with code: xxxx. Check it out!!!”
Thanks!!!
I hadn’t discovered MotelRocks; what a thoughtful suggestion from… erm, who are you?
No shock to see that fashionlover090 is a spammer targeting twitter followers of rival (and [...]

Douglas Coupland, Generation A and the Earth Sandwich

I’m an unashamed Douglas Coupland fanboy and read everything he writes.
With his new book out, Generation A, he’s in the spotlight again and is being interviewed all over the place. But for an author who has a love/hate relationship with technology, it would be no surprise to see the book being heavily pushed through [...]

Ryanair attacks bloggers. Fight Fight Fight!

Ryanair - as I’ve mentioned before - doesn’t like the internet.
Which is odd considering they rely on it almost entirely for their business. Last time we looked, they were attacking third party websites who were scraping Ryanair content and sending business their way. Now it’s the bloggers they’re after.
Blogger Jason Roe made the mistake [...]