I guess Ryan Air is the buzzing brand of the week, getting a lot of attention from bloggers and Twitters. It started when Jason Roe, a freelance programmer, blogged about an error in Ryan Air's booking engine (read the comments as well). He had discovered a way to book a flight for 0.00 pounds. The ...

I’ve realised that I’ve been a bit remiss in not updating my blogroll. When I find a blog I like, I generally add it to my netvibes page, which is getting increasingly weighed down by more and more links  (these are currently organised into 22 sections). I don’t know if it’s...

Thanks to Wadds’ tech pr blog for hooking me up with this interesting article, Online PR basics in 30 minutes: DWPub white paper, featuring Daryl Wilcox’s free white paper,  Online PR in action: Daryl Wilcox Publishing (DWPub) published an excellent 12-page white paper last week that is...

Browsing through many neglected RSS feeds today, there wasn’t a lot that tickled my fancy (so to speak). Once again, I did see a couple of posts that probably should have been held in a “drafts� folder overnight – and then deleted.  I don’t wish to pour salt on the wounds, but there are a...

Hurrah! A new Irish PR blog has come to my attention. You can find Emily Tully’s blog here. Hat tip to Damien. Editor’s Note: Since hitting "Publish� I remembered I wanted to include Piaras Kelly’s list of Irish PR & Marketing blogs. ShareThis...

Heartiest congratulations to Stuart Bruce and the team at Wolfstar who won the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Grand Prix Award for the UK’s Outstanding Small Consultancy!  Fantastic achievement in 18 months!   Fair play award of the day goes to Thomas Brunkard , who as a communi...

It was the week of the swindler, the thief, the profane, double-dealing Governor, the blood sport of Illinois politics and the sociopathic Wall Street money manager. Marc S. Dreier, “one of New York’s most accomplished lawyers, brazenly swindled some of the city’s savviest investors,”...

Forrester’s Josh Bernoff has published some interesting findings from a survey they undertook in the second quarter (April-June) of 2008 to find out the most trustworthy information sources. Interesting, good old e-mail comes in a #1, traditional media is holding up nicely and the poor blog (parti...

There has been a drought of interesting things in my RSS feeds recently, the majority of content seems to tirelessly (and boringly) focus on “blah blah is dying or dead� or “blah blah is going to change the world�. The good news is that today I came across some interesting items I thought I ...

Snip Snip PR Squared I know you all are probably tired of the neverending "OMG Economic Crisis!" trend of the blog jots lately, but really, check your feed readers. This is inspiring a lot of posts! Today is no different, with Todd Defren discussing the unfortunate decision of one o SHIFT's clients ...