My Headshift colleague Eliot (@eliotf) pointed me towards an interesting presentation, Hiding Data, Content and Technology in Real World Games, shared by Chris Thorpe recently. I love how Chris describes layering a highly useful interface on top of play around… Continue Reading
[I originally posted this on the Headshift Blog last week where it got a lot of attention and some useful comments. It was also re-blogged on Social Media Today where it has now been read nearly 2500 times.] User generated… Continue Reading
[I originally posted this on the Headshift blog last Thursday] Hot on the heels of my post yesterday about finding, aggregating and curating content from third party sources, including blogs and social media services, comes word of the Twitter Times… Continue Reading
[Originally posted to the Headshift blog last Friday] Most owners of social software systems use the data generated through usage in their reporting of metrics. So, alongside the standard metrics such as unique users, page impressions, time spent, etc, social… Continue Reading
Late last year, and early this year, I embarked on a social media training roadshow (for Headshift) that took me to the far corners of England, Scotland and Wales. My purpose was to show each of the finalist communities taking… Continue Reading
Yes, it's the second time The Telegraph has come knocking on my door this week – do these things come in threes? "People in the area affected by the Samoa tsunami', writes The Telegraph's Emma Barnett, 'have been documenting the… Continue Reading
London is, suggests an article by the Telegraph's Emma Barnett, the social media capital of the World. Here's her evidence: 10% of traffic to Digg, the link recommendation service, comes from London London is the largest geographical network on Facebook… Continue Reading
This morning I came across a wonderful speech (from the Edinburgh International Television Festival) by Robert Peston, one of the best blogging journalists at the BBC where I headed up the Blogs Network during the trial and immediate post-trial phase.… Continue Reading
I was on BBC Radio Jersey a couple weeks ago discussing citizen journalism and, in particular, whether bloggers should be allowed to cover government reviews and inquiries. Here's the audio of the interview as it was aired: Download and Listen… Continue Reading
I rarely find myself nodding in agreement with advice dished out by newspaper agony aunts, but Jeremy Bullmore, the Guardian's Dear Jeremy, had me doing exactly that on Saturday with a piece of advice that I think is spot on… Continue Reading