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2009: A Conclusion

Although I enjoy lots of different subjects at heart I am a fully fledged, Doctor Who sock wearing, geek. So I hope you all have a great 2010 and I leave you with my website statistics for 2009. Not entirely accurate since several months were not counted due to a technical error but on the whole they are quite interesting. Especially several of the most popular search terms! Unique Website Hits: Greater... 

Managing Reputation Online

Before a company can implement a successful social media strategy it is critical for them to analyse how they are to manage their own reputation. To represent your client online requires you to wear the mask of your client. Due to this you must accept full responsibility to act on the part of your client on the side of promotion. Social networks are no longer a question of the scripting languages being... 

Class of Nostalgia

There is so much worry which is inflicted upon a young person’s mind. From those early years at school when you are required to read and write efficiently but also learn basic maths. Basic maths? Does such a mathematical arena really exist? The problem with schooling is that every pupil is classified into individual categories. Ranging from those who struggle, to the pupils who have brains like sponges.... 

Stop the social media hype

Stop the social media hype
Apparently there are 15,740 social media experts on Twitter of who take the forms of gurus, consultants, stars, experts and ninjas. I am not entirely surprised and as Mashable observed this self-accredited title is just hot air. Surely the only way somebody can be truly convinced of your worth is through the voice of another? Notice how on my Twitter profile I have avoided cliché terminology. There... 

PR Student Wiki

PR Student Wiki
Only a few minutes ago I decided to set up a PR Student Wiki. I have absolutely no idea if this project will work but since it hasn’t really cost me anything I haven’t lost financially if it flops. It just occurred to me that if this PR Student Wiki works it would be a very potent resource for students and professionals alike. http://www.prstudents.co.uk/ Feel free to share your blog posts on... 

Christmas Spirit

Don’t be so surprised. Now that two blogs have become one I am forced to write mundane articles such as this. The build up to Christmas is not only readying everybody for a periodical anticlimax as Christmas day occurs and the rain fell just as it did the previous. For those of us who would rather just avoid the Christmas period altogether conversations occur with stunned strangers who cannot bear... 

#ratm4xmas Campaign

#ratm4xmas Campaign
After having read Barbara Ellen’s worryingly inaccurate article in The Observer this morning, “Why I rage on behalf of the ordinary Joes”, I have been convinced to spur into a Rage Against the Machine article of my own. The fog of chart war first began to form when the Facebook group “Rage Against the Machine for Christmas No.1” appeared on Facebook. The group was formed after X Factor winner... 

End or an era

As we come to the end of a decade I have also reached the end of an era. The first blog which I set up on the internet, asuperfluousramble.com, has now ceased to be. It was set up February 2006 and acted as a giant diary detailing my steps through life. Steps are not always physical though and the multiple articles discussing my thoughts upon religion and philosophy dominated its readership and gained... 

Top 10 WordPress Plugins

As a keen user and avid supporter of WordPress I thought I would share with you my top 10 WordPress plugins. All of which are being used on this blog. Enjoy! 1. AJAXed WordPress – A superb plugin which allows for the neat ajax expanding feature for posts on this blog. It also has the ability to make your whole WordPress ajaxed. In many cases it can make blogs load quicker and become more responsive. 2. WP-SpamFree... 

Journalism in the 21st Century

Journalism in the 21st Century
In light of the Guardian news iPhone application it seems appropriate for me now to discuss my ideas with how Journalism is changing in the 21st Century. Perhaps more appropriately how we will see journalism change as we reach the end of a decade. As John Stuart wrote in the second chapter of his essay ‘On Liberty’ it is necessary for journalists to have the right of free speech as long as there... 

Twitter Follow Limit: A small cry for help

Twitter Follow Limit: A small cry for help
As some of you will know there are Twitter follow limits. The limits which Twitter has imposed are: 1000 updated per day 250 direct messages a day 150 API requests a day Follow limits The purpose of this blog post is for some therapeutic reassurance. I suspected the event would happen for a little while; I have reached my follow limit. It’s particularly annoying for me because I do not use Twitter... 
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A Placement Pondering

A Placement Pondering
I really don’t think University properly prepares you for the working world. The “real world” as people who wear blue collared shirts like to explain is tough. No matter how confident I am with my own skills and abilities there are always discussions which seem to just dishearten. It is quite difficult to listen to somebody who explains that only their world is the real one, the tricky one and... 
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