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Produce, Organise, Consume

I think what I’m trying to sort out in my mind is what are the main skills that people need when being introduced to all the loveliness of Web2.0. Looking back the components might have been… Having a blog or … Continue reading

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Maps, Mobile and Instant Backchannels

Whoo hoo! Doing OpenStreetMap based stuff in Plone works (thanks to some pointers from Giorgio Borelli). Here’s two offices, mine and Alistair’s in Heslington Hall added to the University of York map. Perfect! Interestingly ANY Plone object can have coordinates … Continue reading

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What Are People Thinking (Note: Not Thwinking!)

I’ve had a lot of responses to my post about twitter, attribution and passing on links. And most people have been commenting on the retweeting/attribution side of things but that wasn’t the point I failed to make. My point is … Continue reading

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What Are People Who Post Links In Twitter Thinking?

If you don’t know, there was a joke that rippled around Twitter about  ‘H from steps being dead‘. Relax, the gag was just a picture with no malice involved… but it caught on… What I found interesting, and then annoying … Continue reading

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Why Twitter Isn’t Real Audience Engagement

Last night, under the banner of “You TWEET if you want to: the web is for opposition, not for governing”, Fishburn Hedges and Channel4 brought us Twinge. What was essentially a twitterfall page where us public could chip in with … Continue reading

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Growling Tweets

It’s nice to see that John has taken my ropey old AppleScript code to display tweets with Growl and improved upon it here, Growling Tweets – John’s World Wide Wall Display, so that it doesn’t need to use Vienna (why … Continue reading

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The Death of Blogging… Again!

I haven’t blogged in ages, but then, neither have you. It seems much of the blogosphere, meaning you and me, have been lured, entertained and distracted by twittering instead. Twitter satisfies many of the needs that blogging used to sate. … Continue reading

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1 of 3. Social Media slides from Tom Smith

Thanks for all the lovely, well, comments about my presentation at ThinkVisibility. Mental?! And I never knew that I never finish sentences… I really don’t… This video is a sketchy look at some of social media projects I’ve been working … Continue reading

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Taste the Rainbow or Something Worse

So, Agency.com decided it’d be fun to have a twitter search page (for skittles) as the skittles home page and much obscenity ensued. It was/is a nice idea that was bound to be abused and was. Now in terms of … Continue reading

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Twitter, Growl, Boosh! In AppleScript!!

Last night whilst keeping an eye on the footie, as a follow up to The Happening, which I wrote about here, I decided to try and create a tool that would improve the experience of a Bad Movie Club, or … Continue reading

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How Two Jokers De-Zombified the Film Industry with Twitter

  On Friday 13th, sometime before 9PM, Graham Linehan had had a great idea he called Bad Movie Club. I heard about it from Phil Jupitus’ twitterings. I’d hastily followed him before I realised it was THE Phil Jupitus, dur! The … Continue reading

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A Free Tool for Reputation Management and Finding Potential Customers with Social Media

In the olden days, circa 2004, it was often enough to create a great site that was SEO’d up to the hilt and to advertise with Google Adwords. All you then had to was sit back and wait for the … Continue reading

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