Media Tweets are Serious Business
What sounds like an expensive turbo-charged sports car is actually the social media platform Twitter and all the cool celebrity kids are using it to build an audience. In this recession, with the shuttering of The Rocky Mountain News, huge newspapers on financial life support and advertisers pulling back on network [...]
0 to 50,000+ in Under 24 Hours
Posted on 12 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 300000 followers, @JamieandLouise, @TheEllenShow, all the cool celebrity kids are using it, BBC, CNBC Europe, Dalai Lama’s Twitter account, Ellen DeGeneris, Jamie Owen, Jay Leno, later revealed to be a fake, Louise Elliot, Media Tweets, Meet the Press host David Gregory, NBC, NBC’s oldest and most famous news program, newsfotainment, President Barack and Michelle Obama, serious business, Stephen Fry, The Jamie and Louise Show, The Rocky Mountain News, Twitter, Wales, Welsh versions of US news anchor Brian Williams and Tod, Wolf Blitzer of CNN
Watching the Ice Thicken…
Posted on 10 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 11-cities course, 120 miles, 16th time since 1909, 199 kilometre long, 1997, a time that was less than half that of the original win, bestowing national honour and lifetime fame on the winn, Brussels sprouts farmer (his day job) Henk Angenent, Burgermeesters (we call them mayors), circuitous route through and around Friesland, decked out all in Orange and make a frightful amount of, Denis Campbell, Dutch crown Prince Willem-Alexander also competed, Dutch fans, dutifully and solemnly each day walk out onto the route, each weekend on Nederland 1 one can watch wall-to-wall, Elfstedentoch, ends in the appropriately named Workum, four top marathon-skaters to the team, Friesland, Frisia, held so infrequently, Henk Angenent (’97 winner), Holland, icy deep freeze, Jan-Eise Kromkamp, Leeuwarden, Mokkum, nation’s biggest sporting event, natural gas shortages, obsessed with skating, Piet Kleine (a national icon as well), René Ruitenberg, requisite thickness of 15 centimetres (about 6 inches), Russia’s Gazprom dispute with the Ukraine, serious business, Sneek, The Netherlands, the race will be held, top cyclist coach Hennie Kuiper became coach of a Dutch, truly the best in the world, Watching the Ice Thicken, where it all started just 7-hours earlier, winter grips Northern Europe, won the race in 6 hours and 49 minutes
By Denis Campbell
While winter grips Northern Europe with an icy deep freeze and many look nervously to possible natural gas shortages as Russia’s Gazprom dispute with the Ukraine lingers, the residents of The Netherlands’ northernmost province of Friesland look anxiously forward to this coming week as the mercury has dipped each night to -18 (about [...]
















































