Month: January 2009

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    A Presentation About Community, By The Community

    Late last year I did a presentation to the AOP UK conference on The Power Of Online Communities. One of the things I said was that I believed that almost all of the important learnings I have gained about how online communities […]

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    Blunt Instruments

    This very funny trailer for last years BBC 3 show The Wall brilliantly captures how (in spite of all the excitement around the new possibilities facilitated by social networks) relatively unsophisticated the tools and our understanding of their potential remain. My issue […]

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    I Care

    Because it's important to Marcus, and because I do. Backstory here.

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    The Goatee Saver

    Ash kindly pointed me at this priceless post over on John Dodds’ blog. Something for all those dodgy goatee wearers out there. Cursing the fact that christmas has just been and gone…

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    Being Social

    When the IPA published their report on Social Media Futures recently, they caused quite a bit of kerfuffle (I love the word kerfuffle) by publishing it in a distinctly non-social way and by running an event which failed to connect with many […]

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    This Is Japan

    There's a million and one ways now in which people can construct their own narratives. Here's a rather charming example featuring the story of a trip to Japan: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2721992&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1This is Japan! from Eric Testroete on Vimeo. If you're interested, there's a rather […]

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    Come On BBC

    I'm sorry, but the decision by the BBC not to broadcast the appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee to help relieve the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unbelievable. After an 18 month blockade and three weeks of heavy shelling, 1.1 million […]

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    Push And Pull

    Rob left an insightful comment on my post about the future of newspapers. "DO STUFF PEOPLE WANT…I say this because there's this attitude today that you have to 'chase down' the customers whereas if you create things with intrigue, interest, values, soul […]

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    A Bridge Too Far

    Amongst all the precitions for 2009 there was not a lot of positivity for media. In fact, if you believe what seems to be the common theme amongst many of them, 2009 is going to be a world of pain. Newspapers are […]

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    Flying Over Britain, Looking For Love

    I love a good data visualisation. At the end of last year, Flowing Data published a list of the 5 best data visualisations of 2008, featuring a couple that I hadn't seen before but which are quite exceptional, so are worth posting: […]

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