If it was April 1st I'd know not to comment on SpinSpotter - but it seems to be a genuine story I found via ReadWriteWeb. Apparently, we are suffering from a 'spin epidemic' and SpinSpotter, together with the efforts of the Truth Mongers and Spin Destroyers Read More

A flurry of stories on the issues around managing social media participation for employers and, by default I guess, employees too: BL Ochman - Does Your Company Have a Social Media Participation Policy? News of the boys in blue and their special interest Read More

Piece here on Mashable about the use of Twitter for marketing. Nothing remarkable in that, there's lots of marketing taking place on Twitter, a little by companies promoting themselves or looking for leads or insight, but far more by Twitterers selling Read More

Our own government in the UK simply has the wherewithal to lose huge volumes of its citizens' personal data (current location, we know not where). And only using CDs via pigeon post too, so no points for technical innovation even.  But hats Read More

I'm just back from holiday but luckily I see Charles Arthur at the Guardian published a great summary of the latest news on Phorm, which I aimed to track before a week of skiing took precedence. Aside from the ins and outs of the financials, and the 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

Jonny points me at a post on the IIAR blog on codes of ethics among analyst groups. In it is a link to this story from HP's AR team. To paraphrase HP's post, they have issues with a product review from an analyst group that rates a competitor's Read More

It seems these days corporate crises are played out in full view of the public.The FT Alphaville team live blogged SocGen's conf call this morning - the one in which the management 'explain' where the euro 5bn went.I've never really got much Read More