Last week we published a Top 10 UK Cycling blog ranking. The blogosphere discusses anything from road safety and cycling gear to specialist BMX, Mountain and Fixed Gear bicycles. Although Fixed Gear bicycles are a growing ...

Can social media predict the winner of this year’s Big Brother? At this early stage, I’m going to sit on the fence and say no. Following our success in using social media to predict the recent ...

Following our publication of rankings for the UK’s top tech tweeters and leading technology forums, today I want to look at the Group and Fan pages on Facebook. For this, I focused on technology brands ...

Three weeks is even longer. I’ve spent plenty of time harping on about the myriad problems the web causes for traditional media, but it’s only this week that I’ve experienced one of those problems first ...

Last week, in honour of our Technology Briefing Book, I posted the a list of the UK’s Top Ten Tech Tweeters. This week, nothing quite so alliterative (thankfully). Below is a list of what are, ...

Later this week we’ll be publishing a Technology Briefing Book – the first of several looking at different sectors – designed to provide a glimpse of the kind of media data, quantitative and qualitative, that ...

The observant repeat visitor to this blog (hello!) will have noticed a new embedded video on the right hand side here. >>> These talking heads were filmed during the Social Media in a Corporate Context ...

Finally, the chaos and uncertainty of the general election campaign is over and we are into a period of chaotic and uncertain horse-trading between the political parties. Fear not though as this too will soon be ...

A lot has been written over the past four weeks about the impact of social media on this election campaign. At the start we were all abuzz with the thought of the UK’s first digital ...

So, another Thursday, another leader’s debate and although the novelty has worn off a bit, the interest still seems to be enormous. Eight million people are estimated to have watched the debate live on the ...

The big debate at yesterday’s Social Media in a Corporate Context conference focused on ownership of social media. Not that Communicate set the conference up this way; it’s just that the passions this session aroused ...

Last night’s big event was the second leaders’ debate, this time on Sky News (also available on other channels for those offended by Sky’s graphics) and this time the subject was ostensibly foreign policy. In ...

Last night saw the first ever TV election debate in the UK, only 50 years behind the US and just in time to catch everyone talking about the first internet election. However, if social media ...

“Who are you all? Why don’t you stop hiding behind your pseudonyms and tell us about yourselves?” These questions were asked by Polly Toynbee, by some reckonings the most influential political commentator in the UK ...

Earlier this week Gordon Brown finally announced that the general election will be held on May 6th, but even before the Cabinet’s flash mob on Downing Street many took the opportunity to declare this “the ...

There were a couple of big announcements from UK national newspapers last week, both very much expected, and both sending strong signals about the future of newspapers in the UK. At the end of the ...

When the Glazer family issued bonds to raise £500 million to service Manchester United FC’s debt, emotions were running high among the club’s fans. The bond issue bought the Glazers valuable breathing space, but large ...

The Financial Times recently said that the internet is now “more sociable than searchable”, with Facebook having overtaken Google to become the most-visited website, in the US at least.  According to Hitwise.com, Facebook.com attracted 7.07 ...

Imagine a status update or tweet that could be read, instantly, in a language of your choosing. Such a breakthrough would dissolve at a stroke the linguistic silos that currently divide even the most multinational of ...

Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe, whose third series has just finished its run on the BBC (second series now showing again on BBC2 and the iPlayer), isn’t just enormously entertaining – it’s also enormously important. Like Lenny ...