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OK. I’ve been product-pitched by PR companies as a (sort-of) journalist many times. I have been pitched as a blogger a few times. This week’s malarkey is a new thing entirely. A teaser/blogger-outreach campaign. On Monday I received a plain brown envelope. It contained a blacked out memo, but the remaining words revealed something about a military operation. Ooooh! There was a little brown envelope, too. Radio 4’s Analysis programme from Thursday covered the Facebook phenomenon: With Friends Like These: Why are people happy to disclose huge amounts of personal information online? Ben Hammersley asks whether our notion of privacy has changed. The ‘listen again’ broadcast of Ben Hammersley’s programme is available here. (NB: the link might not work News Blog — Daily Brief: Official: Facebook Poised to “Take Over The World” — Portfolio.com Among other things, it will allow businesses to set up their own Facebook pages and then reach out to real, live users — that is, potential customers — based on the interests they have described in their profiles. I am just back from the Digital Media Literacy Forum Summit hosted by Channel 4. Most of the people there — from the worlds of media, education and policy making — agreed that there was some need for action on digital media literacy (I guess none of us would have turned up, otherwise) but there The latest edition of the fantastic Trendwatching newsletter hit my mailbox this morning with a surprising sartorial tip for future-gazing fashion fans: …read our lips: TURQUOISE. Now, don’t ditch your black turtleneck just yet: it won’t be until Fall 2011 that turquoise will have its moment. Why? As trend analyst Tyfion Tihslub of the Ingleton |             | |||
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