No one expected much to happen at the first court date in Joe Fontana’s fraud and breach of trust case and it didn’t. Â But the mini-shit-storm that erupted on Twitter was a lot of fun to watch and it had nothing to do with the case itself! Â …
Fontana Fascination Read More »
Still unsure about the value of Twitter? My (free) account paid for itself last week by reuniting me with an old friend. Â …
Another Twitter Winner Read More »
To say I was gobsmacked by a proposal from City of London staff would be an understatement. …
Thanks for Nothing, London Read More »
For the first time in many years I revisited a Doctor whom I have to say, I really don’t like. Â …
2013 has its first viral photograph.  And it’s a picture of something that happened in 2012, specifically, the birth of a baby last October. …
A Little of that Human Touch Read More »
It sounds like an April Fool’s Day prank but I can assure you, it’s real.  Drivers in China have been told to treat a yellow traffic light the same as a red.  Instead of yellow meaning a warning that red is coming and to stop if you can safely do so, they’re expected to stop immediately upon a yellow. …
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A little while ago I posted a plea for radio stories and I got some very good ones! I’m starting to work on an ebook collection of my own experiences in this wacky world of broadcasting and including some of those I’ve been sent.  They range from in-studio shenanigans to off-air tomfoolery to the ever-popular dealings with over-bearing or delusional listeners. I’ll share one of the rarer ones with you today, written and experienced by Mr. Derek Botten. …
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Twitter is so much fun. I love it for networking, for catching up on articles I may have missed that someone else thinks to tweet and for exercising the latent part of my psyche that would have loved to try my hand at comedy. Â To wit, I present some of my own, original favourite tweets of 2012 and then some of my favourites of people I follow and admire. Â …