SarahMarshall: Here are the stats on Buzzfeed's... Robert Scoble on Newsnight: The drinking game. Robert Scoble - he of questionable job titles and topless pictures - is apparently appearing on Newsnight tonight to talk about Google Glass. Drink each time the following happens: He lets out an awkward nerd laugh. He mentions his wife and / or kids. He mentions "the internet of things". He mentions an obscure startup that is "changing the world using sensors". He demonstrates how slow it is to do things on a phone. He reveals his "I'm blogging this" t-shirt. Down your drink if: He takes off his "I'm blogging this" t-shirt / you see at least one of his nipples. BONUS POINTS: Continually drink the entire time he isn't wearing his Google Glasses. Stay tuned to the hashtag #scoblegame and #newsnight.
Twitterlists. #Brum - birmingham hyperlocal news. Loic Le Meur Blog: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter. Death To The Embargo. PR firms are out of control. Today we are taking a radical step towards fighting the chaos. From this point on we will break every embargo we agree to. Background: Tech companies are desperate for press and hammering their PR firms for coverage on blogs and major media sites. That in turn means that PR firms hammer us to get us to write about their clients. Gone are the days of polite pitches and actual relationship building. For the most part we’ve dealt with the problem quietly over the last couple of years, other than the occasional lashing out on Twitter. But now a new problem has emerged that we won’t ignore. A portion of the stories we write are “embargoed” news items.
A lot of this news is good stuff that our readers want to know about. But there’s a problem. One annoying thing for us is when an embargo is broken. That means it’s a race to the bottom by new sites, who are increasingly stressed themselves with a competitive marketplace and decreasing advertising sales. Our New Policy.