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    "On May 31st, 2000, I signed up with a new service called LiveJournal. I was user 4,136 which entitled me a permanent account and street cred in some alternate geeky universe which I have not yet visited. I was living in the Sunshine Biscuit Factory in Oakland California and starting a company to dispatch couriers,…

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    Nutmegged

    Absolutely love this, Wieden's latest work for Nike Five. They could so easily have done it differently but the whole CCTV thing just works. And best of all Graeme worked on it. Graeme happened to mention to me a piece of footage from the shoot of Wayne Rooney being nutmegged by a local kid called…

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    Clouds, Netbooks and Swiss Army Knives

    Unusually good deck from Fjord on mobile trends for 2009. Like the way they frame some of this, particularly around how apps stores are 'digital innovation bazaars', how the real-life, tangible benefits of cloud-base services are the effortless way in which they put digital life at your fingertips, the burgeoning use of netbooks, the role…

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    Memes And Evolution

    John Naughton pointed me at an interesting piece by Chris Wilson in Slate. Wilson enlisted 3000 of his readers to help determine how the Facebook Meme "25 Random Things About Me" got started. But instead of finding a single "25 things" creator, he found something else much more interesting instead – that 25 things wasn't…

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    Talented Connections

    Image courtesyAnother thought provoking image from Indexed, headlined: "Another Reason the Internet Has Saved Many a Butt". I wonder how true this actually is. It's certainly true to say that a huge part of the richness of being online are the (sometimes unexpected) connections you make, and that it's one of the real-world benefits of…

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    A Presentation About Community, By The Community – The Finished Presentation

    A Presentation About Community, By The Communityhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=imm-2009v1-1233912890623861-3&stripped_title=a-presentation-about-community-by-the-community View more presentations from neilperkin. (tags: crowdsourcing community) OK. So here is the finished presentation from my presentation crowdsourcing experiment (back story here) that I gave at yesterday's conference. In the end I had about 30 slides contributed. I've tried wherever possible to leave them in as original…

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    A Presentation About Community, By The Community (update)

    I have to say that the reaction to what was (in all honesty) a bit of an experiment, has been tremendous. So far I've received not far short of thirty slides, with some great contributions, so I'm really pleased with how it's all gone. I'm now busy arranging, tweaking and putting final touches on it…

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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 work have come through being a part of one, and in order to…

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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 with all those folks who talk about 'influencers' in networks is that too…

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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 of the assembled social-media-savvy digerati. The IPA could have ignored the bad reviews,…

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