Pete wrote this post on the Top Ten Most Irritating Phrases. What struck me was that this Telegraph article accumulated 2,484 comments, more than I'll get in a lifetime. Whick proves irritating phrases rattle cages. So what other posts are in the list Read More

There have been some interesting, vaguely connected, posts this week contributing to the discussion around where we are with the adoption of social media, particularly among larger or more conservative organizations. A bit too much to Read More

A few people have posted about the pros and cons of excessive tweeting. Tom called it Twitter Tourettes. So if a 'tweet' captures a thought or comment, then surely a 'twitch' is a compulsive nervous tic expressed through Twitter. Read More

                  As Twitter ends a creaky week of sporadic downtime, BusinessWeek has an article on Why Twitter Matters and explores the potential for it to emerge into a 'social media powerhouse'. Read More

Dale at Freeform Dynamics has shared some data on the use of social media based on an online study of 1,456 IT professionals undertaken in September 2007. Six months is probably a long time in social media, so it would be great if Freeform Read More

Having glibly introduced the subject of Phorm in the previous post, I spent a little longer looking at the storm brewing around it. Its interesting on a number of levels. Phorm looks to be following Dell's well trodden path to online purgatory. Of course, Read More

Last week I posted on the power of the niche in building community among professionals in vertical industries but at the time I missed this post from Richard Holway. It covers some of the same territory and also flags that the FT is planning to launch Read More

BusinessWeek has revisited a post from 2005, Blogs Will Change Your Business. It has now, of course, become, Social Media Will Change Your Business. The gist remains the same though: you have to get involved, so overcome your cynicism and get Read More