How will future historians look back at the UK election of 2010? We don't know, of course, but the primary sources will be more than the letters between politicians, the newspaper reports and memoirs of the politicians. They will probably use the data-mining skills ...
Tag Archive: Media
May Day in Albion: will future historians declare the 2010 election for social media and the people?
iPad first impressions
Like most of the world, it seemed, I was perfectly prepared to offer an opinion on the iPad without having ever seen one. Like most of the pre-launch "analysis" I'm not sure I ...
Bureaucracies defend themselves to death.
Vested interests, protectionism, conservatism are the enemies of diversity, innovation and change. This idea has been at the heart of liberalism since John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty. He used the example of China, a ...
Online media: Finding balance between stock & flow
I'm grateful to Lloyd Shepherd for the point to a post by Robin Sloan called Stock & Flow. Recalling studying for his degree in economics, Robin recalls: There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in ...
API and they know it: Guardian distributes *everything* online
* Updated * I've also written about Best Buy setting its catalogue content free at the iCrossing Connect blog... Jeff Jarvis has an excellent post headed APIs: The New ...
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 ...
Useful advertising: Atheist bus ads
You'll doubtless have heard the story of the journalist and comedian, Ariane Sherine, who was irritated by a Christian ad campaign on buses declaring that non-believers "will ...
Edge of a riot: Social media, balance and truth in the news
When I was a student in 1994 I was on the front cover of The Indpendent the morning after a riot outside the Houses of ...
People’s News: social media and newsgathering in 2008
The staff of NowPublic, the "particpatory news network" as it describes itself, has picked a list of ...
Techmeme turns up the human in its news aggregator mix
Aggregators were my first love, when it comes to news and social media - I've always been infatuated with the idea of Digg, lover of Techmeme and I basically see most of the world through my personal aggregator, the ever flexible and accesible ...
Tag Archive: Media
May Day in Albion: will future historians declare the 2010 election for social media and the people?
How will future historians look back at the UK election of 2010? We don't know, of course, but the primary sources will be more than the letters between politicians, the newspaper reports and memoirs of the politicians. They will probably use the data-mining skills ...
iPad first impressions
Like most of the world, it seemed, I was perfectly prepared to offer an opinion on the iPad without having ever seen one. Like most of the pre-launch "analysis" I'm not sure I ...
Bureaucracies defend themselves to death.
Vested interests, protectionism, conservatism are the enemies of diversity, innovation and change. This idea has been at the heart of liberalism since John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty. He used the example of China, a ...
Online media: Finding balance between stock & flow
I'm grateful to Lloyd Shepherd for the point to a post by Robin Sloan called Stock & Flow. Recalling studying for his degree in economics, Robin recalls: There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in ...
API and they know it: Guardian distributes *everything* online
* Updated * I've also written about Best Buy setting its catalogue content free at the iCrossing Connect blog... Jeff Jarvis has an excellent post headed APIs: The New ...
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 ...
Useful advertising: Atheist bus ads
You'll doubtless have heard the story of the journalist and comedian, Ariane Sherine, who was irritated by a Christian ad campaign on buses declaring that non-believers "will ...
Edge of a riot: Social media, balance and truth in the news
When I was a student in 1994 I was on the front cover of The Indpendent the morning after a riot outside the Houses of ...
People’s News: social media and newsgathering in 2008
The staff of NowPublic, the "particpatory news network" as it describes itself, has picked a list of ...
Techmeme turns up the human in its news aggregator mix
Aggregators were my first love, when it comes to news and social media - I've always been infatuated with the idea of Digg, lover of Techmeme and I basically see most of the world through my personal aggregator, the ever flexible and accesible ...