Drum for Justice this Sunday

This Saturday Christian Aid are asking people to drum for Trade Justice to remind people of the promises made by the G8 last July and to form a petition to the UK government. There will be drumming sessions organised all over the country, drumming at 12 noon. For more information on the whole event look at www.pressureworks.org (one of the Christian Aid websites). Do it – it will be fun

Alistair Campbell is a blogger?!

Labours former Chief Spinmiester is blogging about the World cup on Labour’s web site. Now I’ve seen everything. But get a load of these horrendours URLs: http://www.labour.org.uk/blog/index.php?id=97&tx_ ttnews[tt_news]=171&tx_ttnews[year]=2006&tx_ttnews [month]=06&tx_ttnews[day]=08&cHash=64db4ea2b0 Call that a permalink? Not very Web 2.0 Alistair…

Going to Los Angeles

Not so much Leaving Las Vegas but going to Los Angeles. I’m going to be in the City of Angels between 22nd July and 2nd August (roughly). I’d love to hear from (and possibly meet with) any technology firms in the digital media and entertainment world; mobile; TV and anything at all “Web 2.0”. Indeed, anything “2.0” at all, Web or not! (Yes, I know we all sick of the

My laptop died

Well, my three-year-old Apple Powerbook laptop died. I lost a lot of data and I may not get it all back. I should imagine the two nasty drops it took over the last few months had something to do with it. Before you ask, yes, I backed it up. But guess what? Looks like the back-up didn’t work as well as I thought it would. Suffice it to say, don’t

Finally – a proper use for a mashup

I’m new to the new music scene of “Emo” (Emotional Punk, apparently), but following a link from a trends site I found Mylocalbands.com. From here you can find the site for Fall Out Boy. Here, fans can post pictures they’ve taken of their fave band and find out where eachother are for meetups etc. This seems to me like a fantastic mashup idea and pretty much confirms my view that

mbites Podcast: The customer is king of Reevoo

The mbites.com podcast this week features an interview with Richard Anson, CEO of Reevoo.com, a new UK-based start-up. The idea behind Reevoo is that customers can only review products they’ve actually bought, rather than the millions of half-baked reviews out there on things people have barely looked at. It is also a handy CRM exercise for online retailers. But listen to the podcast to get the full story. Download the