I’ve started mentally drafting this a few times, but almost all of them just ended up with me reiterating everything I said in my ‘Futility Of Fighting Fire With Fire‘ post over on stevelawson.net. However, this evening, someone linked on Twitter to This blog post claiming that it was a campaign masterminded by Sony. And […]
Category Archives: social media
The Future of Politics is Mutual
This is not a post about the things that are wrong with our world. This is a post about how we make them right. Of course it is not exhaustive, and by no means is it intended to be a detailed and flawless solution, in fact it openly admits that fact, because that (you will […]
Together We’re Louder – Campaigning In the 21st Century
Everything has changed. And the more things change, the more they stay the same. Every time a new technology comes along, its success is largely governed by the level to which it helps us to do what we’ve always wanted to do, but have previously been unable to do properly – or at least as […]
Gig Hashtags
Gig Hashtags Steve recently tweeted: “wonder if there’s a good way of using postcodes, standardized time & airport TLAs to make gig dates searchable on twitter.” I’m not sure airport TLAs work well – they are biased towards major cities and, if a city is major enough, you then have to pick which airport to […]
A weekend among friends
(Or how a sceptic faired at Greenbelt ‘09) Suddenly two weeks before the event we were going to Greenbelt, a festival that I knew little about, apart from the name. The “we†being my wife Judith and two of my children, Jessie (13) and Rosa (11) and me. We were camping with members of 3 […]
Talking Art With @Artbizness at Greenbelt
Just had a fabulous 3 part Audioboo chat with Mike Radcliffe, AKA @artbizness off of the internets. Mike is both a very skilled and thoughtful artists (mixed media visual art and poetry mainly, but also music and video) and a fascinating thinker about art and the artistic process. We were joined at one point by […]
The Importance Of Social Media At Greenbelt
Ever been to something so great that mere words always felt inadequate to convey to those who hadn’t been there just how cool it was? Or had so many great experiences in a weekend that you bored the arse off anyone who dared to ask how it went? If you have, you’re on the way […]
Audioboo from Greenbelt
Have finally started getting some AudioBoo stuff recorded at Greenbelt. (the embeds are looking a bit weird at the moment, but you can still play them by clicking the bit of the play button you can see at the far left hand side… will fix it ASAP) First up, a few of the Greenbelt tweeters […]
The Thinking Behind £1.40 Conference
I’ve long been baffled by the insane costs people will pay to go to business and technology conferences. For the same money that many of them cost you could hire a couple of leading experts in the field to come to your company and help you out with whatever it is that you’re working on. […]
The Death Of Myspace And How To Save It.
Hypebot just ran a story about Myspace Losing 66% Of Their International Staff, Including the possibility of scrapping most of their world offices (including the one in India, but not China as that’s a separate company). Here’s the comment I posted: Myspace lost it when they refused to update their design, to open up the […]