This article on the Pinboard blog comes with the most credible of endorsements: At least four people that I know (who aren’t connected to each other as far as I know) have linked to it on Facebook/Google+/Twitter. In an odd way, the way that I found it shows the other side of the question that [...]
Being a ‘firehose predator’ – looking for changes
A few weeks ago, I posted here on ‘drinking from the firehose‘, looking at what we can learn from the huge tide of commentary that social media is creating for the first time. For me, the most interesting aspect of this is that it gives journalists, PRs, or even more sophisticated intelligence gatherers, the chance [...]
Things people in PR & Campaigns need to know: Reading Twitter’s firehose
I’ve recently posted here about how most major social media applications are a bit like an iceberg – and how most of us only get to see the tip of it. I’ve also looked at how the internet could be looked at as a vast conspiracy to make us all machine readable. Today, I’d like [...]
Things people in PR & Campaigns need to know: No1: Be ‘Machine Readable’
Do you have a scanner in your office? If you do, and you look at the disks that came with it, you’ll probably find that it has an OCR function that you can use. OCR – Optical Character Recognition - can take old-media (in this case, print) and turn it into digital media. I can scan that [...]
The Twitter ‘Firehose’: Going beyond the tip-of-the-iceberg.
I’ll be posting up a bit more about social media analytics over the coming weeks and months, but today’s news – ‘Hedge fund uses Twitter sentiment analysis to guide decisions’ - provides a useful opportunity to provide a timely taster. For example, can we use this kind of approach to improve campaigning, media-monitoring, governance or public health? [...]
Valuing web-design
I spent years pitching for business as part of a web-development company. No-one explained the value-model as well as Dan at ALittleBitOfSomething dot com.
More on viral imagery
A while ago, I posted here on a list of images that had gone viral – images that had properties that made people want to forward them on to others. Here’s a good post with another load of them – including this one (perhaps the most mild mannered one of all of them, but my [...]
Socialising your organisation’s information; could this be easier?
A few of the organisations that I work with have raised very similar queries with me recently. In each case, they’re public or voluntary sector bodies who don’t really have issues around proprietary information. They believe that most of the information that they have should be made as widely available as possible. Reading this article [...]
Leadership blogging tips 10: Be human
Marshall McLuhan would have been 100 years old today if he’d lived. This makes it a good day to remind ourselves of this insight: “…an administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in [...]
Politicos meeting gamers
Just a quick pointer to an event I’m helping to organise tomorrow evening in central London: Politicos meet Gamers – Adam Street Club, 9 Adam Street, London WC2N 6AA. [tickets] There are still a few tickets left and I’ve outlined some of my own thinking behind why it’s a worthwhile meetup to attend and I’ve [...]
