Posts Tagged ‘communication’

Something to say

January 30th, 2009

Us from the IT-and-new-media communities often feel quite pleased about being “on the edge of things”. We have the ‘net at our fingertips – the shiny netbook, the edgy phone, the niftiest tools. We master the medium. We feel like an elite (or l33t, if you will *cough*).

But sometimes it feels empty of anything meaningful. My father once said about an acquaintance:

“he’s able to spout platitudes in 12 languages”

Implying that speaking 12 languages was all very well, but language is just a way to convey meaning, and if you’ve got nothing to say, then it’s a waste of brain cells.

This is how I sometimes feel about this whole “revolution” that the internet represents. We’ve got a whole lot of tools to communicate with our peers, in sound, in video, in semantic tags. Great. But do we have something to say ?

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Factoid of the day

May 28th, 2008

Well, rumoroid is not a word (understandably).

I’m told that at a press conference, having good food present is a good idea. Journalist will tend to give bad press if they have to make do with a bowl of peanuts, or worse, nothing.

So if you’re launching your startup, or putting together an event, you better mind your grub: warm and cold snacks accompanied by decent bubbly/brew will further your cause. The reporters will like it, and next time they might even bring their friends.

This sounds totally believable, because, well, i too definitely prefer good food to no food at all.

It was even suggested that a certain type of journalist’s diet is based on such event. In that case, it might be a good idea to throw some fruits and veg into the mix. Just to make sure the journalist stays alive and well long enough to write the good review your hors d’oeuvres and canapés have paid for.


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