“Viral”
Nice idea from AXAPPP – Twitchoo – a map of how colds and other ailments are spreading across the UK. A much more basic variation …
Maps made of tweets
This is a lovely image was created by the Visual Insights team at Twitter from billions of geo-tagged tweets posted since 2009. Look closely and …
Google’s “Yay” vs. Twitter’s nuanced view
A Broadstuff post about the Summly acquisition by Yahoo! looks at the story as a test for how well Google works as a search engine …
Hoax-busting: Self-correcting Twitter streams
Is crap-detection, as Howard Rheingold calls it, something Twitter’s crowd is increasing doing for itself? Mike Orcutt, writing on MIT Technology Review thinks it may be: …
Where will we the web be in four years
On the day Barack Obama was elected in the 2008, 1.8 million Tweets were posted. In 2012 that many Tweets were posted in the last …
Web shadows: Twitter learning tasks
The most post popular posts relating to Me and My Web Shadow has long been “Some Beginner’s Guides to Twitter“. This post from Beth Kanter is …
Some beginners’ guides to Twitter
* * Updated * * At the Brighton Digital Festival talk on online reputation for artists I did the other evening, I was asked to …
On revolutions: two blog posts that stopped me in my tracks
Two blog posts – one notes for a Newsnight feature that never got made, the other an academic paper – made a deep impression on …
Causes and contexts: Arab Twitter revolutions and the origins of the First World War
Image: A troop train in the First World War (cc) drakegoodman @avschlieffen: Is anyone srsly suggesting trains caused the biggest war of all time? WTF!?! …
SuperSkills at 3 Monkeys – some more thoughts and writing a second book
Early start today to talk about the SuperSkills idea, at 3 Monkeys Communications in Soho. If you attended – thanks very much and here are …