One At A Time, Please

Monday, July 12th, 2010 By Neil Morris

Check e-mail. Facebook. Read the paper. Tweet. Check voicemail. And all of that while watching TV.  We are increasingly becoming defined by connectivity.  Work and home life mingle as a result. Multi-tasking extends now into most of modern life.

Is that what we really want? Well, many people…

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Spam – Coming To A High Street Near You

Thursday, July 8th, 2010 By Jamie Kenny

I’ve never liked spam. Not even as a kid.  It was flaccid and tasteless and I just couldn’t see the point of it.

Well that hasn’t changed, and as progress would have it, I’m jibing at its electronic namesake now.

Thanks to a filter built like Cerberus, I don’t get too much of it on email…

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Your Facebook Obituary

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 By Dave Mance

I’m starting to realise there may not be a statue of me after I’m gone. Or even a plaque.

Which has got me thinking, what will I leave behind? And the disturbing answer is: my Facebook page.

Think about it. That info just stays there. For all time. You are perfectly preserved forever in…

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Just A Big Iphone?

Friday, May 28th, 2010 By Laurence Parkes

When I first saw Steve Jobs demonstrating the iPad my overwhelming thought was; “But it’s just a big iPhone. Without a camera. Or the ability to call anyone…

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Newspapers: To Pay Or Not To Pay?

Thursday, May 27th, 2010 By Nicole Martin

Rupert Murdoch unveiled the new websites of The Times and The Sunday Times

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Youtube, Advertising And Multi-tasking

Thursday, May 20th, 2010 By Neil Morris

YouTube announced this week that it streams more than two billion videos a day. Yes, you read that correctly – two billion.  Just last October, on the third anniversary of…

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Dual Use Of Tv And Internet

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 By Alison Wright

I often watch TV and use my laptop at the same time.  Recent data from Thinkbox tells us that 47% of adults combine the two activities at least once a day, and another 14% at least once a week, thus proving this is now mainstream behaviour rather than simply a desperate attempt to multi-task by the…

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The Post-consumption Consumer

Monday, January 4th, 2010 By Alison Wright

I recently saw a press ad in the government’s ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ campaign encouraging people to buy less stuff. Somewhat unusual for an ad, not to mention demonstrating a pretty fundamental contradiction between environmental and economic policy!

In modern consumer society, marketers…

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