Techcrunch has its faults, but can’t be knocked on this fantastic April Fools’ story, which had me (a) relay it to Twitter – thanks heaven for delete and the normal wave of scobleisms to drown it out; (b) draft an indignant blog post. Only a quick peek at the comments set me straight. Bastard. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/31/techcrunch-has-acquired-fuckedcompanycom/
March 28, 2007
It’s so sad to hear about the brain drain in the UK recently. Geography is Destiny, said the NY Times in February, stupidly. Sam Sethi writes recently about the need to be big if you’re going to compete over here – though I understand his (and Mike’s) blog is about to do just that. Tom Coates, [...]
March 27, 2007
What do MySpace, craisglist and the ‘A listers’ have in common?
March 26, 2007
Congratulations to Shaun Shull, the inventor of new social media monitoring site Zudos. By coming up with a name whose only rhyme is ‘kudos’, they’re almost guaranteeing good headlines. Which I have awkwardly resisted. The same thing goes for something like del.icio.us – you’re almost compelled to write about ‘tasty features’, ‘yummy deals’ and other such [...]
March 23, 2007
A little spat has developed this week over something called Liveblogging, which I found quite interesting because it brings up some contentious ideas and opinions about blogging in general. And I’m not referring to the shameful ‘heavy fingers‘ incident that spoiled the Guardian Changing Media conference for one unfortunate woman… Liveblogging refers to people blogging an [...]
March 20, 2007
So, I’m on a panel about how brands can benefit or suffer from involvement with social media at the forthcoming Blogging4Business event. Good examples we all know about: Dell (addresses Dell Hell service complaints with its own blog; learns from early mistakes on said blog), Microsoft (developer social network; but also taking stick over its blogger [...]
March 16, 2007
It’s been on BoingBoing, it’s off-topic and you’ve probably been emailed it about 10 times already. Nonetheless, no apologies for reposting this guy.
March 16, 2007
I have been writing and thinking (superficially, natch) recently about the future of net video. My belief is that we will soon reach the deep video stage. And what on earth is deep video? Deep Video is searchable in the same way that other internet documents are searchable. It’s also like DVDs – the extras will be [...]
March 14, 2007
The Guardian reports today that the BBC’s Jam programme, previously known as the Digital Curriculum, has been suspended thanks to the European Commission. This was a project that has already spent a £150mn budget, all of it licence payers’ money. As you know, I worked previously in educational publishing. I’ve spoken with a lot of key [...]
March 12, 2007
OK, I’ll try not to let this site become too much like a boring diary of what I do at work and get back to the normal web services and social media output. But not yet. Today, the website for NMK Forum 07 finally went live. It’s taken me a while, mainly because of my incompetence a [...]
March 9, 2007
I’m in charge of the Beers and Innovation events at NMK. It’s a stream that was first started by my predecessor, the excellent Deirdre Molloy, in response to a post from Tom Coates about why we don’t seem to be particularly innovative in the UK. Oh yes, we are! Anyway. Our plan for the next event [...]
March 9, 2007
Move over Twitter. All the smart kids are now Tumbling. What is a Tumble Blog? It’s like an internet scrap book. Quotes, RSS, pictures and multimedia just stuck together in one place. When I first started this blog, that was actually exactly what I was looking for. I just wanted a place where I could [...]
March 31, 2007