A quote taken out of context from here:
Many people still read home-delivered print (more than you might think). Print readership isn’t directly measurable, but there are plenty of research…
Someone said the other day there’s nothing new about this stuff. I think the stuff was related to social media tools but let’s assume it was because it’s true. With a few exceptions all these things…
Been thinking about what you might call “hyperlocal aggregators” of late. It’s not a novel idea by any stretch but possibly a natural next step. Say you’ve got a load of blogs, forums, etc about a…
Post the Collective Memory stuff I’ve been thinking, what are these for anyway? Once you get over a certain number of links it’s incredibly doubtful that the casual reader is going to follow more…
Had a couple of run-ins with blogs requiring registration to leave comments. Sites have every right to do this and may well have good reasons (for example, their content might attract a lot of…
Re: Charlie Beckett’s post The myth of digital democracy?
I don’t think I’ve ever been a Digital Utopian. I might have come across as one and I’m sure I’ve said things that are a bit utopian but…
I’ve been thinking recently about blogs covering the creative and arts scenes in Birmingham. I have something in mind. It’s not in any form to be shared yet but if it comes to fruition it should be…
The Supersonic festival has got me thinking about many things, most of them music related, obviously, but some relevant to this blog. I’ve been thinking about ripples, echoes, etc that come from…
Sifting Dave Winer for the good quotes. Sometimes he gets it spot on. (Not always though!)
What worked for HBO won’t work for news
A theme I keep returning to is how the physical makeup of the Internet, a networked system of autonomous nodes sharing information with no central point, informs the social discourse that takes…
I wonder if we need to easeback on emphasising how “easy” this all is. Sure, setting up a blog or whathaveyou is simple as are the basic methodologies (linking, tagging, etc) but the actual…
18 months ago there were no “social media consultants”. The term didn’t exist. But for at least a decade before the term people were doing stuff with the internet in a social way and there was a…
The use of atomic weapons was widely blamed on a primate named Albert Einstein. Even Einstein himself had agreed with this opinion. He was a pacifist and had suffered abominable pangs of…
There’s a backlash coming. I don’t know exactly what form it’ll take but I’m starting to see signs. Just wanted to note it.
