The health of the social media scene

January 28, 2009 in Economics, Social Media
Tags: advertising, business, funds, recession, retail

With the rest of the economy seemingly disintegrating before our eyes at a rate few would have conceived of this time last year, it’s no wonder that danger signs are appearing online and even in social media.
There are two camps of people: those who believe that the recession will not touch online business – or [...]

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Jacques Monin: How Britain lost its way
How Britain’s image has changed, partly as a result of the recession and Britain’s disastrous collapse showing that it’s not the model for the rest of the EU to follow; and also because “the key words, the only words that really matter in Britain, are money, business, [...]

Capitalism isn’t nice; just necessary

January 26, 2009 in Economics
Tags: business, depression, economy, greed, history, recession

If you happened to be watching any of the BBC’s “city season” programming over the last few days, you may – like me – be coming out of the weekend feeling pretty depressed.
Whether it was BBC2’s excellent Saturday night documentary 1929: The Great Crash drawing chilling comparisons between then and now, or Peter Day’s Radio [...]

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How To Sell Social Media to Cynics, Skeptics & Luddites
Good collection of sites to help you make the business case for social media both internally and externally.
(tags: socialmedia tips resources)

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White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology
washingtonpost.com report shows that the White House is – like many government offices around the [...]

change.gov arrives at whitehouse.gov

January 20, 2009 in Government

It was fascinating to note today that – even as the inauguration of President Barack Obama ran a few minutes late – the web was punctual to a fault. At the stroke of 5pm GMT, the old Bush whitehouse.gov website disappeared for good, and a new era had dawned on the web.

The new website brings [...]

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Barack Obama’s inaugural address
No major “zingers” like FDR or JFK but some beautiful phrases in there: “a new era of responsibility…the price and the promise of citizenship”; “greatness is never a given. It must be earned”; “we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals … and we will not [...]

Cracking the Rothko Code

January 17, 2009 in Art
Tags: abstract, Art, expressionist, mark rothko, tate modern

I’m not the biggest follower of high art, but at least once every year I like to do at least one big serious cultural outing – it helps keep creativity and imagination alive in other parts of my life and work. 2008’s (obviously delayed) outing was to investigate an artist I’ve always struggled to “get” [...]

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How Tipping Point applies to Twitter
Mavens, connectors, salesmen, the 80/20 rule – a practical application of Malcolm Galdwell’s famous theory of tipping points and how it translates to Twitter.
(tags: twitter tippingpoint gladwell)

Seth’s Blog: When newspapers are gone, what will you miss?
“You’ll miss us when we’re gone…” Well, maybe not the waste of paper [...]

Twitter breaking the news – again

January 16, 2009 in Technology, Web 2.0
Tags: news, twitter, us airways

Three times in the last 24 hours, I’ve learned about the big stories first through Twitter. And when I’ve gone in search for confirmation on the story from a mainstream website, it hasn’t been there for another 10-15 minutes. It seems Twitter’s changing the pace of online news.
The first story was about Steve Jobs stepping [...]

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A Lethal app for your iPhone
An iPhone app that shows a composite of four scores based on lethal wildlife, crime, disease, and disaster probabilities from statistics in the area. Only for the US, but it shows an idea that could easily be used in the UK to bring information like UpMyStreet and the recent crime [...]