Obscure Box

When the drumming gorilla first hit the web he was a big hit. I recall sitting in one office where the e-mail went from desk to desk, on each occasion the tune was the same. Phil Collins – he of Genesis and solo career fame – was heard singing the opening lines of his classic [...]

After a few days of Twittering silence from Queensland Premier Anna Bligh … she’s back. No longer anna4queensland she’s now only known as Premier_Bligh. Not sure about the background image though. Works on a really really big screen, but on the normal size screen the face of Anna Bligh disappears.

During the election campaign in Queensland you could hardly hear the policies for all the Twittering from the two leaders battling it out for the state’s top job. Both Labor’s Anna Bligh and the Soda Pop Party’s Lawrence Springborg were using the Twitter website for all sorts of … well twitter. But the votes have [...]

A survey found its way to my inbox that makes interesting reading. “How the Press Uses and Values Public Relations and Other Media Resources” is the joint work of the George Washington University in the US and a company called Cision. The Swedish-based company company  (no idea how to pronounce its name) describes itself as [...]