Labour leader Ed Miliband has been having a terrible week. First, he was under assault from his former advisor policy guru Lord Glasman earlier week who said his leadership has “no strategy, no narrative and little energy”. Further pressure came today from Labour Shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, who said that Labour should not simply oppose all government spending cuts.

Now Ed Miliband is trending twice on Twitter after a gaffe in a tweet was seized upon by and set the Twitterverse alight. The Labour leader tweeted his sadness at the passing of 80s gameshow host Bob Holness who presented ‘Blockbusters’ although his tweet include a crucial mistake and highly embarrassing mistake. Read More »

When things start to feel stale you need to rethink your strategy. And Twitter is no different. This new kid on the block has given its user interface a makeover and while introducing a host of new features (http://fly.twitter.com/). The idea is to make it more persuasive as a social networking platform while also making it more intuitive for the un-initiated to navigate. However, the response has not all been positive. I for one think Twitter will likely fail to hit the mark on both counts. Read More »

This great infographic charts the change technology has delivered to our living room from the arrival of the first digital video recorder back in 1999; to how we watch content; where we are getting our online content from; to the arrival of Netflix; and the rise of social TV.

It’s that combination of online video, the web, on demand TV and social that brings us to what is a televisual cross roads changing fundamentally the TV experience.

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A really smart campaign here from Israel’s Anti-Drug Authority that makes great creative use of Facebook Timeline’s design and the way it splits your profile evenly down the middle. It is also appears to be the first brand to use Facebook Timeline for advertising.

It uses the Timeline to show a man’s descent into drugs and shows how his life would be if he were clean. Read More »