When new applications like Twitter proliferate, they rapidly become a ‘must have’ in certain circles. If you go to a conference, not having a twitter account excludes you from Kathryn blogged this here a while ago – and I get the impression that it can be fixed if you can get the attention of somone [...]

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 [...]

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. Psst – viral marketing doesn’t work – pass it on!:

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 [...]