http://byrnebabybyrne.com The thoughts of Colin Byrne, CEO of Weber Shandwick UK Thu, 13 May 2010 09:11:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those loyal readers (hi Mum, hope the goldfish got better, hi son, still can't find your mislaid iPod) who think I was either too bone idle to blog or dead, I was actually blogging away for GQ (ww.gq.com) with my good friend Tara Hamilton-Miller during the election. As of ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=456 BBC DG Mark Thompson is right to frame the question as "what is the BBC for" as opposed to (the defensive) "is the BBC too big", but are his cuts the right answer to that question? As Lily Allen (swoon) points out in her Guardian op ed, without 6 Music ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=455 I arrived at a meeting with some advertising and marketing colleagues earlier this week with half a ton of newsprint and magazines under my arm. It caused a few titters. Guess you must be in PR said one. The half ton included the FT, The Times, The Guardian, The Sun, Wallpaper, ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=453 2 months since I blogged. I'm a bad blog-boy. That said, with a busy job and five kids, it is possible to be "too busy to blog".  Today's British Social Attitudes Survey, basically showing that we are more liberal on homosexuality and "living in sin", but are increasingly seeing ourselves as ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=449 As the general election looms ever larger you can't move without tripping over someone who claims to be a key insider from President Obama's digital and social media campaign. Digital campaigning and social media is a growing battleground area for the main parties, with the Conservatives still clearly in the ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=441 Tapping this out at an early hour in a cold dark Heathrow airport. Had the great joy of listening to Farming Today and the early hour of Today, the best broadcast news programme in Britain. Two items struck me. One, David Miliband deciding not to pursue the EU "High representative" role. Good call ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=431 We are all talking a lot about the "decline" of traditional media vs the continued influence of press and broadcasters here in the UK, the USA etc. But if you want an example of just how influential an editor, painstaking journalism and some editorial balls can be, look to The ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=430 I was last speaker up at a joint PRCA/Corp Comms Magazine conference late last week entitled ‘Emerging from the recession’. Having spent a week on 2010 budgets, talked to clients and fellow agency heads, and been at the Conservative conference in Manchester (a bit like one of those old concept ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=426 I always get emotional when I visit Berlin. This is one of the most significant cities in modern history, as well as emerging as Continental Europe's cool contemporary cultural capital. As you fly in you can see from the formations of the flatblocks below which was the East and which ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=424 Waiting to get off the train on the way home last night, two geeky teenagers were talking about collecting original versions of albums. One was bragging about his Prodigy CD collection (keep it to yourself bud). The other countered that he had original vinyl Beatles albums. He is currently locked ... http://byrnebabybyrne.com/?p=422