February 2006

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Down under

I’m flying out to Sydney, Australia tomorrow and will be there through to Wednesday, March 1. Catching up with David Bass who heads our office there and meeting with clients to talk about tech and…


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The penny drops for Alastair Campbell

BBC: Tony Blair’s ex-media chief Alastair Campbell says he never sent an e-mail or used the internet during his near decade working for the Labour leader. “I never used a computer other than to write…




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$ix Apart gets ca$h

Matt Marshall at Silicon Beat says that Six Apart, the blogging platform developer behind Typepad and Moveable Type, has just landed $12m in series C financing. Intel is rumored to be in on the deal,…


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Breememe, aka Battle of the Memetrackers

Micro Persuasion: Steve Rubel’s testing out the Memetrackers – TailRank and Memeorandum – by asking bloggers to link to this post quoting the word Breememe, seeing how quickly it appears in each, and how that…


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CoComment – out of closed trial

Comment tracking service, CoComment is now open for all. Worth trying, if you haven’t already. That said I’m having a few problems whereby it prevents me from posting comments, and tracks every comment made on…


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Stay read damnit

I’m having a problem with NetNewsWire, my RSS reader. I have a number of Technorati, IceRocket, PubSub and Feedster alerts set up to track topics, links etc. When something new crops up, it shows in…



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Why agencies fire clients

Todd Defren is letting the cat out of the bag about why agencies fire unprofitable or unpopular clients. Some campaigns are just not profitable since expectations and demands exceed the time and budget available to…