I was hoovering (ok, vacuum-cleaning - I prefer the colloquial British cos I’m a colloquial Brit) the other day - absentmindedly, which is how I do most things - when I suddenly wondered to myself “Does this hoover have a microchip in it?� Because I bet it does. When you start it up it idles f...

Should your company blog? - Yes, all companies should blog. No, your company might not be right for a blog because you want to moderate every comment, or because you don’t really have a goal for the blog, or because your customers just want to eat the hamburgers, not read about what you think....

After reading this post by Jeff Howe about the acquisition of 8020 publishing by camera retailer Adorama and some private investors, I think there’s something more to think about than just the salvation of a cool magazine. This is another move into the land of content marketing. It’s eas...

Come on in — we're glad you're here. rabble.ca was built on the efforts of progressive journalists, writers, artists and activists across the country. We launched rabble on April 18, 2001, just before the protests against the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, and leapt onto the Net ...

Pew Research Center: Social Segregation - A 2007 Pew Research survey found that while a large majority of Americans say they have friends of a different race, pluralities of whites (45%), blacks (35%) and Hispanics (39%) say they have "just a few" friends of a different race. About a third...

While mining Twitter data for business and marketing intelligence (trend/buzz analysis, sentiment/opinion mining, authority/influence analysis) looks like a compelling path to explore for a business model, it is important to consider the proposition from the point of view of the customer. Enterprise...

Peter Kirwan on Ed Roussel's outsourcing idea: "The other question that needs to be asked here is this: what will a newspapers’ roster of 'premium' writers look like once they’re required to blog and Twitter with the rest of us. Getting the top knobs to take the web seriously...

Blogging doesn’t have to be a “what do I want to write today?” exercise. It can be as formal or as informal as you’d like it to be, but should you have specific goals for how blogging influences the rest of your business communications and online relationship building, it mig...

Remember the school yard? Remember how whenever there was a fight, every child from miles around would crowd in a circle, joining in one massive spectator sport? No other playground activity could attract as much attention, except maybe streaking naked past the staff room window with the headmaster'...

Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP - Hehh…Twitter active users have increased 900% in a year and now Ev &Co raised a new series C funding round of $35 Million from Benchmark and IVP. Now the question is about their business plan or…about who’s going to buy Twitter How t...