Archive for February, 2009
I don’t usually plug stuff here, but there’s always an exception and I’m going to make it in the case of “Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock” which is on BBC4 tonight at 9pm (and repeated many times thereafter) as part of a short Hitchcock season on the channel.
I really love Paul Merton’s work (he’s [...]
The Chicago Journalism Town Hall
“A lot of the people newspapers pay to write are not just competing against people who write for free, they are competing against people who write better than they do, and those people are compelled to write because they are experts, which they are paid to be.”
(tags: blogs journalism)
There have been several eye-catching Government site launches in the last few weeks, showing how seriously Government is taking social media. But is the drive for digital engagement at odds with another key online policy?
The most high profile of the recent launches has to be Real Help Now, the government’s new brand for tackling the [...]
Alfred Hitchcock Geek
Impressive, well-written site for fans of Alfred Hitchcock. Such as myself.
(tags: movies film hitchcock)
New Data on Top Twitter Applications and Usage
Including the split between desktop and mobile, and some of the mobile apps including TwitterBerry and Twitterfon.
(tags: twitter data statistics)
Twitter traffic trebles in January
Twitter traffic has already more than trebled in the UK [...]
Just in case you thought that online was somehow immune to the economic downturn, here are five stories from a single RSS feed that greeted me when I opened up Google Reader this morning:
LCD screen industry may be next IT recession victim
Sony management shake up announced
Dell records 48 per cent drop in net income
Microsoft cuts [...]
links for 2009-02-25
BBC | ‘Most unfortunate names’ revealed
This should have you chuckling: real names that are a punchline, from Jo King to Barry Cade, Carrie Oakley and Tim Burr. Yes, really.
(tags: funny humour)
Rapid Thinking Makes People Happy
Is thinking fast the real root of happiness? And – does it explain the uccess of Twitter et al?
(tags: [...]
So yesterday we finally found out who is to succeed Alan Bishop as COI’s Chief Executive. And the winner is … Mark Lund, who is currently CEO of Delaney Lund Knox Warren (DLKW) and Chairman of the Advertising Association.
I confess I don’t know Mr Lund and so have no personal opinion to make on the [...]
Google |From the height of this place
Interestiing and intelligent pieve from a Google senior vice-president about the development and the future of the internet and of information around the world; linked to President's Day in the US with use of several inauguration speeches from down the years, starting with Barack Obama's
(tags: internet technology future google [...]
The last week has been full of discussion, complaints and general outrage about Facebook’s new Terms of Service that seemed to say, in summary, that they owned any data you put on the site – even if you deleted it and canceled your account.
As Google have argued before, there are sound technical reasons related to [...]
links for 2009-02-17
Customer Feedback & Ideas for digital engagement
A cheeky site gathering ideas for the new Director of Digital Engagement, from promoting the procurement of small, creative suppliers to ensuring civil servants can access social media sites at work
(tags: ukgovernment digital engagement)
links for 2009-02-16
HMG Director of Digital Engagement
“The successful applicant will … develop a strategy [...]
Google Shared Items- Why #fixtweetie is important
- Oliver Postgate: Ivor, Bagpuss and me
- BBC hit by major IT disruption
- State of social media & online PR in the UK
- Government gets into games business
- Five Facts About Second Life the BBC Doesn't Understand
- Why testing online should not be optional
- Stephen Fry attacks 'malevolent' comments following Twitter spat
- New BBC Blogs on the Block: Web Developer and Research & Development
- Why do people want microsites?
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