Professional ‘funny man’ Keith Chegwin is facing the wrath of fellow comedians for tweeting one-liners that don’t appear to be all that original.

Simon Evans (you might have to Google him like I did) was the first to take umbrage after Chegwin, who has nearly 39,000 followers, tweeted: ‘My auntie Marge has been ill for so long we changed her name to “I can’t believe she’s not better.” This particular joke is said to belong to one Milton Jones (I had to Google him too). Evans responded, ‘Cheggers old chap, you are no doubt acting out of good intentions, but these jokes are written by professionals. It’s not really on to distribute them like this, without credit.’

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Whenever you have a dominant player in the market, such as Facebook in social networking or Google in search engine marketing, every new start up or competitor gets the comparison.  The world of social media loves to go looking for the next Facebook, and any start up which shows promise invariably gets branded with the label at some point.

But will there ever be another Facebook? I can think of a few reasons why there won’t:

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Last week I was asked to cover the Leuka Mini Masters charity golf tournament.

The event, inspired by Mission Impossible 2 actor Dougray Scott, drew an incredible crowd including Hugh Grant, Tim Henman, Damian Lewis, Rob Brydon, Phil Glenister, Gianluca Vialli and Mark Nicholas, to name but a few.

Dougray and the organisers had asked Bing to sponsor it and I was asked to take a camera along and try and get some interviews. Read More »

I first came across the idea of “government as a platform” when I was interviewing Tim O’Reilly earlier in the year about future visions of how government could be re-modelled for the digital age. Tim’s quickest way of explaining “gov as a platform” was using the iPhone as an analogy: i.e. just as the iPhone’s value has been optimised by opening up the iPhone platform to a legion apps, so government should do the same to optimise its value. Read More »