In Belfast earlier this week, working on the inaugural PICamp – the Political Innovation Camp alongside Amplified 09. We had some great coverage from the BBC’s Hearts & Minds programme – Nothern Ireland’s Thursday evening political slot. [youtube]EndCLDbf_7o[/youtube] Steve Lawson liveblogged the whole day heroically here including some audioclips that can be listened [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
Why ‘gamechanging’ makes for better politics
On Tuesday, I’ll be in Belfast (un)organising an Unconference called PICamp – the Political Innovation Camp. I’m working with the Slugger O’Toole weblog and Amplified ’09 in doing this, and we’re hoping to have sixteen sessions (that’s how many we have time and space for) – each one initiated by attendees. The most exciting thing [...]
Twittering PICamp
If you want to get an idea of the value of Twitter, here’s my experience in establishing an ‘unconference‘ and publicising it quickly and cheaply. Last week, myself and Mick Fealty of Slugger O’Toole launched PICamp. We did it using a free-of-charge Ning website and the whole development took about an hour – soup-to-nuts (as they [...]
The future funding of journalism and original non-US drama on TV
I’ve written a post over on the Common Endeavour political weblog about the problem with policy-deliberation and how it may result in the ideal solution to the people-won’t-pay-for-content-anymore problem.
Obstacles to interactivity
Tim Davies has written a post about the kind of obstacles that get in the way of organisations in promoting interactivity. He has then spun it out into a Wiki. It’s quite a brilliant idea of Tim’s and I’ve written about it here on the Local Democracy blog. My shorter version of a long post [...]
Announcing picamp Belfast
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be promoting and working on ‘picamp’ – the political innovation camp event in Belfast on the 26th of May. This project is being done in conjunction with the Northern Ireland political weblog Slugger O’Toole, with NESTA-sponsored Amplified ’09 and Queens University Belfast who have kindly allowed us [...]
The meaning of memes
One weakness of the name ‘memeserver’ is that you have to spell it out a lot on the phone. “Nemeserver?” or “mem-server?” are the two common ones but there are plenty more. Initially, I thought this pointed to a poor choice of name (or name …. FAIL! as one popular viral would have it). But [...]
