http://www.wearebluesky.com Leeds Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:29:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s only the fourth working day of the New Year and already we’ve received several CVs from people looking for work. All came via email, which is fine, but only one person had actually bothered to carry out some research to find out who to get in touch with. I’m awfully ... http://www.wearebluesky.com/2010/01/07/dear-sirmadam/ Here's a great blog entry from Mark Reeve, former editor of the Birmingham Post on why he's leaving the newspaper industry after 25 years. He brings up some very interesting points all of which, as a former journalist myself, I agree with. http://www.wearebluesky.com/2010/01/04/20-things-hell-miss-about-newspapers/ A couple of days ago I asked the blogosphere if I could I swear in my own blog, which came about after hearing something on television that really got my goat. If could have been so easy to have gone off on one and had a good old rant – with ... http://www.wearebluesky.com/2009/12/30/yes-i-can-swear-in-my-blog/ Can I swear in my own blog? If so I will in my next entry. (And I really will swear, like Gordon Ramsay.) http://www.wearebluesky.com/2009/12/29/can-i-swear-in-my-own-blog/ I've been Tweeting since May 2008, but over the past few months I've slowed down. I'm fed up with the spammers, the self-appointed experts, the irrelevancies and the bores. And Stephen Fry; not that I follow him. Don't get me wrong, it's still relevant to so many businesses, although it's more ... http://www.wearebluesky.com/2009/11/26/a-twitter-truth/ Aubin & Wills is a high-end clothing company with five stores in upmarket places, as well as an impressive e-commerce site. Their latest catalogue landed on my doorstep a couple of weeks’ back, complete with a black and white arty cover showing a variety of place names in an assortment of ... http://www.wearebluesky.com/2009/11/09/shout-out-to-aubin-wills/ A couple of years ago a, now former, client finally agreed that his business needed a new website. We’d been nagging him from the outset – as website development is one of the services we offer – because the one he had was a very basic static site built in-house many ... http://www.wearebluesky.com/2009/10/28/when-a-website-goes-bad/ The dust finally seems to be settling on the MP’s expenses saga, though I think it’s safe to say it won’t be too long before the issue pops up again in some way or other. Since the Daily Telegraph newspaper first broke the story on the 8th of May it surely ... http://www.wearebluesky.com/2009/08/25/314/ A few days ago I met up with some former colleagues from my days as an online journalist which is where we all got to know each other, and have remained friends ever since. We originally met back in 1999, and had all arrived there after lengthy careers working for ... http://www.wearebluesky.com/2009/04/21/213/ Seeing as the whole world has gone Twitter mad, with blogs abound about how it’s revolutionised everyone’s lives; national newspapers frothing over it and selling it to the masses, as well as long-term users now proclaiming patronisingly “I told you so”, I thought I’d put my oar in. As with any ... http://www.wearebluesky.com/2009/02/26/tweet-tweet/