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 [...]
Posts under ‘Web culture’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Another reason spam is on the way out
Mashable has a widely re-circulated post saying that spam is on the way out. Apparently there’s 82.22% less than there was a year ago because of various enforcement measure (cops, ISPs etc). There’s also the alarming other side to the story: That malware is a growing menace. I’d suggest that this landmark provides a useful [...]
Can you change people’s minds with your arguments?
Another quick pass on the question of relaxing while the internet chatters about you. There seems to be an idealistic argument here – and a more realistic one. On the one side, there are a couple of very high-minded quotes to consider: “..you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into” [...]
Leadership blogging tips 6: Dealing with conflict -v- getting useful feedback
As a preface to what follows, I’d like to throw in an observation: I believe that most people are more worried about hostile commentary online than they need to be. In the course of my work, I’ve often spoken to sharp, articulate people who work in a position of responsibility. Often people with innovative and unconventional ideas. [...]
Inforgraphics & open data: An introduction.
The leadership blogging series on this site will continue to dance around what is essentially a single point: That blogs are good for getting others to help you describe a problem (the essential prelude to solving it effectively). People who have thought about this potential for any length of time have concluded that an effective [...]
Leadership blogging tips 2: Productivity, recreation or therapy?
Unless social media makes you more efficient and effective, it’s recreation or therapy*. Obvious, eh? As Flannery O’Connor said… ‘I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.’
