This is a picture of one of the footballs my twenty quid bought as part of the Great Football Giveaway, moments after it was given to these kids in Uganda. I absolutely love it.

Media - it's all about the numbers, right? Accountability, reach, frequency, coverage, weight, strike rate, ratings, spots, eyeballs, impressions, click-throughs. If you like soup, there's always a good soup of numbers surrounding media you can drown in.

  Image courtesy OK, so seeing as how we're approaching the end of the decade and all that, the time seems apposite for a retrospective of sorts. A Greatest Hits if you like. So I've been back through the last few years of blogging and picked out a...

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Below is a conceptual video (HT to Katy for the link) created by BERG London and the (Swedish publisher) Bonnier R & D team demonstrating a potential vision for digital magazines. I really like it. I like it because it strikes an excellent balance...

  "Maybe it’s time to stop talking to your clients about social media completely. After all social media is not an objective in and of itself. It’s merely a means and a tool to create deeper and more valuable relationships with customers and...

After all the pre-Copenhagen nonsense surrounding the leaked e-mails and allegations of manipulated evidence supporting manmade global warming, the Met Office decided to publish some of the data it uses to analyse climate change. I hadn't seen it so I...