You may have seen this already, but it’s worth another showing. Using Twitter may offer some instant gratification, but it’s worth remembering just how potent Facebook is as a medium. The Conservative Party’s digital manager Samuel Coates recently tweeted that a Tory microsite got something in the order of ten times as many referrals from [...]
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Digital exclusion
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
