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Intimate Internet Radio

It’s been an ambition of mine to host an occasional evening chat-based radio station for, oh, at least ten years now. Looking around, I see that technology has now just about made this possible, so I’m feeling the urge to do something about it, especially as quite a few folks on Twitter seems to be doing [...]

September 28th, 2009 | Category: social media, technology | 8 comments

Digital identity

I met @3djamie at the #twee8 Hackney tweetup last Wednesday and met up with him again yesterday to have a chat, seeing as we both work in eLearning. I’ve found tweet ups to be great for networking with people in my field who have useful ideas and contacts, as well as being an excellent way to [...]

August 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: social media, technology, work | 5 comments

Twitter: The Honeymoon is over

I’ve been using Twitter less and less lately, and my enthusiasm for it has waned to almost zero. I’ve been reading articles about the Twitter backlash. They seem to be suggesting that existing users are turning against Twitter because it is being flooded by hordes of new users sputtering endless inane commentary. I’m not sure how [...]

March 31st, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: social media, technology | 12 comments

EdTwestival

I’m too exhausted to write a proper blog post about the EdTwestival, other than to say it was a roaring success, and that we raised over £3,500 for charity: water. I wish I’d had time to actually talk to all the lovely people who turned up, rather than just thrusting my book of raffle tickets in [...]

February 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: social media | Leave a comment

Twitter: Making and Spreading the News

I’ve been trying to resist the urge to write about Twitter, but it’s just too interesting not to. I’ve just got off the phone with a journalist from a Scottish press agency, who wanted to speak to me about my involvement with the Edinburgh Twestival.

When I got involved with planning the event, I had no idea [...]

February 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: social media | 5 comments

Twitter 1 BBC 0

I don’t agree with the BBC’s decision not to broadcast the DEC’s Gaza appeal, but I can at least understand why Mark Thompson struggled with it (incidentally, it’s nice to see citizens complaining about something a little more important than Jonathan Ross for a change).

But what I don’t understand is their decision not to mention [...]

January 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: social media | Leave a comment

New blog

Because I’m *such* a prolific blogger, I’ve decided to start another blog to feed my obsessive need to procrastinate. This one is about pictures, rather than words, though.

Each day I take a look at my Facebook friends feed and have noticed how few people put privacy settings on their photos. This means I frequently find myself [...]

January 13th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: social media | 2 comments