Social media will ensure that we know more (and sooner) about electric cars, and how they are driving, then any vehicle in history. As owners feed real experience to the world through Facebook and Twitter, manufacturers will be able to build up a far more complete picture of consumer response than any market-research firm could… Continue reading
Posts by Gareth Huw Davies
Montreal – baguettes with skyscrapers
There’s nowhere in North America quite like Montréal, the second largest French-speaking city in the world after Paris. Thinks baguettes with skyscrapers. The writer visited Canada’s bilingual big city, where the standard greeting is ”Bonjour-Hi”, and give six good reasons to make a long winter weekend of it, including endless cosy underground shopping, the hotel fit for… Continue reading →
Red carpet city of the stars on the French Riviera
“This short cigar belongs to a man with no name. This long gun belongs to a man with no name. This poncho belongs to a man with no name.” Introduced in this way in Fred Otne’s totemic poster, it was almost the film with no name. A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood, soon cast off its… Continue reading →
How sustainable is your restaurant’s fish dish?
How much should you care about where the fish you are served in a restaurant comes from? And how much do you find out about this from the menu, the serving staff and the restaurants website? The answer to the first question is: a lot. And to the second: not much at all. When… Continue reading →
Twitter to be indispensable to businesses in 2011?
Analysts are predicting that 2011 could be the year when businesses begin to derive real benefit from Twitter and other social media. There are some intriguing early successes in the environmental field. The electric car with the biggest public profile is the Nissan Leaf, launched in the US in December, 2010, and in the UK … Continue reading →
Intangible charm of swish North African masterpiece
Marrakesh has been transformed from dusty hippie outpost to one of North Africa’s swishest destinations, a vital call on the glitterati’s grand tour. This magical boom city boasts boutique hotels furnished in high style, celebrity chef-run restaurants and deluxe hammams. But inside its sophisticated wrapping, the writer finds the old city little changed, with its… Continue reading →