Archive for January, 2008

8 Jan 2008

When branded community attacks

Marmite lanched their social media based site at the beginning of 2007. As a brand with quite a vocal and passionate user base, it was a natural step to set up forums and also to celebrate the best Marmite-related activity on the web. Unfortunately, it looks like someone has taken their eye off the ball and someone’s worked out that the Marmite forum ain’t moderated and is filling it with dodgy porn links. Oh dear.

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8 Jan 2008

A blog from the past - fight club.

William Henry Bonser Lamin

William Henry Bonser Lamin is a First World War English soldier and his blog is proving to be a surprise hit in 2008.
William made notes or sent letters almost everyday from the cold, damp trenches of a WWI front line … and his descendants have been posting them to a blog, exactly 90 years to the day.

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