It pays to be a little paranoid about emails, IMs and the likes sometimes – about not saying things in them you wouldn’t like repeated elsewhere. Especially when it comes to matters professional and commercial…
When Adam Tinworth voiced his anger at the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and its attitude to social media in a [...]
Category Archives: Headline
Reminder: you’re always (potentially) on the record online
Don’t be distracted by the Facebook climbdown “victory” – big issues remain
I wrote yesterday on the iCrossing UK blog some thoughts about the Facebook decision to revert to its old Terms of Sevice (TOS) in the face of a user revolt.
M’learned iCrossing NYC colleague Alisa is on the warpath over the Facebook Terms of Sevice (TOS) debacle. Seems she’s on to something, and I’m listening closely:
Some [...]
How to set up a nice simple group collaboration space
A nice piece of social media literacy here from Dr. Michael Weschand, a cultural anthropologist focused on digital, and his group at Kansas State University.
Everyone in the class (Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography) has their own blogs, all of which are aggregated into a single feed. This sits on a Netvibes page alongside RSS feeds of [...]
Upload to Facebook = donate your content to Facebook?
* * UPDATE: Check out my NYC colleague, Alisa’s analysis of what the Terms and Conditions mean in Facebook: All Your Data Are Belong to Us…
Facebook’s new terms of service make it sound an awful lot like they own anything you put up there forever. Ulp!
Some think this may even have consequences for brands that [...]
Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan
Spreadsheets aren’t strategy, as Umair Haque is fond of saying.
Turns out they can actually be quite dangerous, for the temptation they bring to reduce a business (a complex, human enterprise) to a set of numbers on a page. Even more dangerous when they trick us into thinking we can predict the future and call the [...]
Innovation in news: Al-Jazeera Labs
Fascinating to see how Arabic and English news service Al Jazeera is approaching the innovation imperative with its Al Jazeera Labs project.
In the first couple of months of this year the company has rolled out many deals and pilots in interesting areas, according to a great report on Journalism.co.uk. I’m especially intrigued by things like [...]
Error message marketing
I love the fact that the first screen shot for the Mac version of Chrome, Google’s browser, is an error message. And the launch date? No word, just an ambition to “have a multi-process browser limping by the end of the quarter.”
Where others would promise launch dates and then wince as they slip, where others [...]
The third largest blogging nation on Earth: Iran
A few months behind on this one, but who cares?
Lovely short film from Vancouver Film School here about why blogging in Iran is a “revolution within the revolution”…
Via Information Aesthetics.
Faris on the “natural selection of interesting”
After Mr Obama got sworn in some things threw me off kilter – sorry for the indecent silence…
Warming up with some things catching my eye, I’ll be building to an outpouring of pent up thoughts about social, strategy and the business of everything.
Hail Faris Yakob for weaving together two of my best-loved skeins of thought:
Evolutionary [...]
Inauguration day in social media…
I wanted to write a round up of all the Obama ‘08 campaign and social media analyses, so I did a search for his name in my Google Reader. The search results, a bit like me and a lot of people today around the world, seems unable to get past the inauguration of the 44th [...]
Category Archives: Headline
Reminder: you’re always (potentially) on the record online
It pays to be a little paranoid about emails, IMs and the likes sometimes – about not saying things in them you wouldn’t like repeated elsewhere. Especially when it comes to matters professional and commercial…
When Adam Tinworth voiced his anger at the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and its attitude to social media in a [...]
Don’t be distracted by the Facebook climbdown “victory” – big issues remain
I wrote yesterday on the iCrossing UK blog some thoughts about the Facebook decision to revert to its old Terms of Sevice (TOS) in the face of a user revolt.
M’learned iCrossing NYC colleague Alisa is on the warpath over the Facebook Terms of Sevice (TOS) debacle. Seems she’s on to something, and I’m listening closely:
Some [...]
How to set up a nice simple group collaboration space
A nice piece of social media literacy here from Dr. Michael Weschand, a cultural anthropologist focused on digital, and his group at Kansas State University.
Everyone in the class (Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography) has their own blogs, all of which are aggregated into a single feed. This sits on a Netvibes page alongside RSS feeds of [...]
Upload to Facebook = donate your content to Facebook?
* * UPDATE: Check out my NYC colleague, Alisa’s analysis of what the Terms and Conditions mean in Facebook: All Your Data Are Belong to Us…
Facebook’s new terms of service make it sound an awful lot like they own anything you put up there forever. Ulp!
Some think this may even have consequences for brands that [...]
Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan
Spreadsheets aren’t strategy, as Umair Haque is fond of saying.
Turns out they can actually be quite dangerous, for the temptation they bring to reduce a business (a complex, human enterprise) to a set of numbers on a page. Even more dangerous when they trick us into thinking we can predict the future and call the [...]
Innovation in news: Al-Jazeera Labs
Fascinating to see how Arabic and English news service Al Jazeera is approaching the innovation imperative with its Al Jazeera Labs project.
In the first couple of months of this year the company has rolled out many deals and pilots in interesting areas, according to a great report on Journalism.co.uk. I’m especially intrigued by things like [...]
Error message marketing
I love the fact that the first screen shot for the Mac version of Chrome, Google’s browser, is an error message. And the launch date? No word, just an ambition to “have a multi-process browser limping by the end of the quarter.”
Where others would promise launch dates and then wince as they slip, where others [...]
The third largest blogging nation on Earth: Iran
A few months behind on this one, but who cares?
Lovely short film from Vancouver Film School here about why blogging in Iran is a “revolution within the revolution”…
Via Information Aesthetics.
Faris on the “natural selection of interesting”
After Mr Obama got sworn in some things threw me off kilter – sorry for the indecent silence…
Warming up with some things catching my eye, I’ll be building to an outpouring of pent up thoughts about social, strategy and the business of everything.
Hail Faris Yakob for weaving together two of my best-loved skeins of thought:
Evolutionary [...]
Inauguration day in social media…
I wanted to write a round up of all the Obama ‘08 campaign and social media analyses, so I did a search for his name in my Google Reader. The search results, a bit like me and a lot of people today around the world, seems unable to get past the inauguration of the 44th [...]