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Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog
http://www.jackyan.com/blog/
One of the web's pioneers on globalization, branding, the media and social responsibility.
Recent Posts
Google deletes Social Media Consortium blog without explanation
Google, through its Blogger subsidiary, has now deleted the Social Media Consortium blog, for no reason whatsoever. For the last few months, the company has made access to the blog next to impossible. It would not let us post on it, even ...
Those applications you blocked are still in your Facebook account
If you’re anything like me, you might indulge in one of those silly little Facebook quizzes from time to time. But because I dislike how applications can access my private data—and over the years I’ve revealed many instances where Facebook has ...
Surprises at GM and Chrysler this week
This has been a fascinating week not so much for me (the Mayor has always maintained to me that she would consider a fourth term, and Sir Robert Jones’s quip about being the corporate backer behind a mayoral candidate and council was on the cards f...
Google will frustrate plans to charge for news
We publishers had a very entertaining morning at Trentham Racecourse on Melbourne Cup Day Tuesday, organized by our printer, Format Print, and one of the presenters mentioned that if News Corp. wanted to begin charging for content, it would likely su...
Campaign graphics for Your Wellington
I blogged today on my free wifi ideas at Your Wellington and mentioned that there are campaign graphics to download. There’s a feature with the Mimbo theme we’re using at yourwellington.org where the images are automatically resized (it’s...
Notes from my Sunrise appearance
It was very enjoyable heading over to the TV3 Wellington studio for my spot on Sunrise last Thursday. It was the first time I mentioned my Wellington mayoral campaign on live network television, even if the rest of the segment was about getting...


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