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All onboard
A metaphorical howl of despair echoes across the internet as far as the Talk Normal inbox from Mr C of South London, whose identity I am protecting for obvious reasons: We are in the process of being...
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Redefining the envelope
A couple of weeks ago, in the comments to a previous post, Helen asked me to investigate the alarming growth in the number of press releases that claim to redefine something. As we enter Lent, when the...
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Seeing right through it
Transparency is not always an advantage If you want to sound honest, it’s popular to describe your organisation as accountable, ethical, or having integrity right now. These attributes are all twice as...
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It’s called a holiday
Scarborough: a commitment to integrating modern architecture that is perhaps most reminiscent of Barcelona. Now that most people are mostly back in a country that mostly matches the one on their plane...
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Shooting the messengers
A firing squad: sometimes it's not so much about who to to shoot, as who to save Having been distracted by a research project that was like a giant, academic version of Talk Normal, I’m even more...
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Jargon’s golden age
Low-hanging fruit is a pain in the neck for them, too Was there a time when we didn’t have to listen to people in meetings telling us what to do with low-hanging fruit? Indeed there was, and it was...
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Tech PR: twice as much business jargon as average
If you think the picture's dull, imagine the press release Last week I pointed out that some of our most hated business jargon terms really caught on during the dot-com boom, where a lot of crap was...
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The enemy within
"Firmly grasp large-scale revolutionary criticism" It’s not fair to blame everybody for the amount of crap that plugs up our inboxes. Anecdotal evidence suggests that a few people ruin it for the rest...
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This is the world social media made
I had hoped my introductory remarks from the Market Research Society’s Social Media Conference last Thursday would have been the highlight, but I was wrong. I thought people would be retweeting my...
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Five things I learned from Google Ngram
Note: I promised that I’d ask Richard Stallman if I had represented his ideas correctly. Turns out I hadn’t. I have pasted his response in the comments section below. It’s a fascinating debate, and...
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