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• Wow.

  They've done it again . We thought it was going to be good, but this is absolutely phenomenal. The '5 years ahead' tagline, far from being dangerously hyperbolic, looks about right. No wonder RIM and Palm each took a 7% dive yesteday. Please, please, Read More... Posted 10 January 2007 10:11 by James Barbour | 1 Comments Filed under: Apple, Microsoft, Windows, Tech Attachment(s): clip_image002.jpg

• Today is Macworld day.

  I'm trying to fight off the ClementClarkMooreitis , but I can't help but be excited. TUAW will be liveblogging , and I'll be watching. I might even play a bit of MacWorld bingo . Add to: | Technorati | Digg | del.icio.us | Yahoo | BlinkList | Spurl | Read More... Posted 09 January 2007 09:25 by James Barbour | 0 Comments Filed under: Apple, Tech

• 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

• Be Prepared

  It's difficult to pick a favourite Tom Lehrer song, but Be Prepared is definitely in my top five. It's not just a handy maxim for Boy Scouts, either - it's a fundamental principle which all those who call themselves communicators must espouse. Particularly Read More... Posted 08 December 2006 10:56 by James Barbour | 4 Comments Filed under: Tech, PR, Politics

• Sort it out, Steve!

  Today I'm cross with Apple . Perhaps yesterday's evangelising was tempting fate a little - my Airport Express has just died, after a mere eighteen months. No more blissful, wirelessly-streaming music, no more instant wireless networks wherever I roam. Read More... Posted 05 December 2006 16:37 by James Barbour | 3 Comments Filed under: Apple, Tech, PR

• Dear Santa

  Please will you bring me an iPhone ? It's funny how we devout Apple followers get excited at absolutely every new product. The iProduct spoof ad is nearly two years old but it's still so true. I don't even know what I'd do with an iPhone. I use my BlackBerry Read More... Posted 04 December 2006 17:34 by James Barbour | 4 Comments Filed under: Apple, Tech

• 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

• WhoTube?

  The BBC reports this morning that YouTube is being sued by ... er ... the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation of Ohio . Otherwise known as UTUBE , and resident at www.utube.com since 1998 . Our tube and pipe machinery friends, established Read More... Posted 02 November 2006 09:22 by James Barbour | 0 Comments Filed under: Tech, Social Media, PR Attachment(s): WhoTubegif.gif

• We're all criminals

  Am I the only one today who's wondering whether, perhaps, the IPPR doesn't have enough to think about? To be fair, I've not read their latest 104-page report , entitled Public Innovation: Intellectual Property in a Digital Age , in full. But a quick snapshot Read More... Posted 31 October 2006 10:05 by James Barbour | 2 Comments Filed under: Apple, Tech, Public Affairs

• That apostrophe again

  Clicking on the SLOB button on Leo's blog the other day I ended up, a couple of clicks later, at the answer to the question with which I was wrestling a couple of weeks ago . And I was right, although perhaps for the wrong reasons. Thanks to the marvels Read More... Posted 30 October 2006 12:03 by James Barbour | 0 Comments Filed under: Tech, Social Media, Punctuation

• Firefox 2, IE 0

  A bit of a Friday tech roundup. MacExpo 's on - I hope to get over there either this afternoon or tomorrow. Very exciting. Lots of hullabaloo this week about Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox v2 . But really, it's a no-brainer. Microsoft 's latest does Read More... Posted 27 October 2006 12:01 by James Barbour | 0 Comments Filed under: Apple, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Windows, Vista, Duran Duran, Tech