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• Fight!

  My Google Reader is on fire this morning thanks to the flaming Tim Ireland has unleashed on Paul Staines . Bloggers everywhere , from proppa blogga Tom Watson to Stuart Bruce and, er, Stuart Bruce , are barely able to contain their excitement. It reminds Read More... Posted 16 January 2007 11:10 by James Barbour | 15 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Politics

• Google hilarity

  To the person who ended up here after Googling the phrase "James Barbour naked", my apologies. I suspect you were looking for the other guy . Read More... Posted 16 January 2007 09:30 by James Barbour | 3 Comments Filed under: Social Media

• Five things

  Simon tagged me with the dreaded Five Things meme last month and like he says, it can't hurt to know a bit more about each other. I generally avoid chain emails and the like but since it's Friday, here are five (short) things you probably didn't know Read More... Posted 12 January 2007 11:48 by James Barbour | 5 Comments Filed under: Social Media

• The public must never know ...

  ... Raincoaster and Ian posted this first . But it's so close-to-the-bone funny that I just had to follow suit. Add to: | Technorati | Digg | del.icio.us | Yahoo | BlinkList | Spurl | reddit | Furl | Read More... Posted 08 January 2007 13:37 by James Barbour | 4 Comments Filed under: Social Media, PR

• Blogging will eat itself. Maybe.

  Year of the Blog, blah blah, You - Person of the Year 2006 yadda yadda User-Generated Content mumble mumble Blogging and Social Media mutter mutter Web2.0 blah technoratiyoutubeflikrdiggmyspacesecondlife zzzzzzzzzzzzzz ........ NME suggested, in the mid-1980s, Read More... Posted 04 January 2007 00:40 by James Barbour | 1 Comments Filed under: Tech, Social Media

• Everybody's makin' it big but me

  Well I paint my face with glitter just like Bowie does And I wear the same mascara that Mick Jagger does And I even put some lipstick on, But that just hurt my dad and mom Everybody's makin' it big but me There's nothing like a Dr Hook lyric to kick off Read More... Posted 15 December 2006 17:24 by James Barbour | 9 Comments Filed under: Social Media Attachment(s): Snowman (Small).jpg

• Tonight's the night ...

  ... for the TWL Christmas Party . Dom and I are going to go - anyone else? Add to: | Technorati | Digg | del.icio.us | Yahoo | BlinkList | Spurl | reddit | Furl | Read More... Posted 06 December 2006 16:44 by James Barbour | 3 Comments Filed under: Social Media, PR

• Public Affairs

  Forging a career in politics? Beware the kiss-and-tell blog. It all ends in tears . (via Jessica Cutler ) Add to: | Technorati | Digg | del.icio.us | Yahoo | BlinkList | Spurl | reddit | Furl | Read More... Posted 30 November 2006 10:25 by James Barbour | 0 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Public Affairs, Politics

• About that gift horse ...

  It's very nice, and quite shrewd, of Thresher to have dropped their 40% off voucher into the ether . It's giving the viral marketing geeks loads to talk about, and more than a handful of blogs have picked it up . But hang on a mo. I live a few doors down Read More... Posted 29 November 2006 13:43 by James Barbour | 11 Comments Filed under: Social Media, PR

• The Times gets saucy

  I'm not deliberately picking up on others' mistakes, although from yesterday's and today's posts you might think so. But a brief, rapidly-corrected blunder by the folks at timesonline yesterday is worthy of comment. The Star Wars Kid is where it's at Read More... Posted 28 November 2006 09:42 by James Barbour | 1 Comments Filed under: Social Media

• Déjà blu?

  I'm not sure what the past participle of the French verb blogger would be - bloggé didn't feel right. But the title of this post seems fitting enough to describe Strumpette's repetition of a two-month-old story yesterday. Having said which, if you're Read More... Posted 27 November 2006 10:47 by James Barbour | 2 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Public Affairs, PR, Politics

• Online democracy, or astroturfing open season?

  Kudos to Tony and co for the launch this week of Number 10's online petitions website . Thanks to some clever coding from the people over at mySociety , you can now petition the PM online. The website's only been up for two days but is already proving Read More... Posted 16 November 2006 09:56 by James Barbour | 0 Comments Filed under: Tech, Social Media, Public Affairs, PR, Politics

• Is this whole blog thing getting silly?

  From today's Daily Show mid-term coverage: And here we have: A blogger being interviewed about blogging, while watching herself being interviewed about blogging. I wonder if she'll blog about that? Which illustrates an interesting point: Are we blogthusiasts Read More... Posted 09 November 2006 20:36 by James Barbour | 1 Comments Filed under: Social Media

• Finding the time to blog

  Everybody's talking about PhilTube . If you haven't watched Did You Say 'Blogging'? , do. While you're there, check out some of the other lonelygirl15 and YouTube send-ups. Everyone to whom I've shown Did You Say 'Blogging'? found it hilarious. More than Read More... Posted 06 November 2006 13:39 by James Barbour | 6 Comments Filed under: Social Media, PR

• Anonymous (political) blogs

  October saw the incorporation into the blogosphere of a couple of new political blogs, Reclaim Labour and The British Bullshit Foundation . Both are pretty forthright with their opinions - but then they can afford to be, because both are anonymous. I'm Read More... Posted 03 November 2006 14:09 by James Barbour | 6 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Public Affairs, Politics