Twitter selling that doesn’t feel like spam
The other day I dropped my iPhone 4 on a concrete floor. The glass shattered. My heart sank. The phone was still working, and a …
Customers in networks: slides and notes from ChangePlayBusinesss
ChangePlayBusiness was an unusual event, to say the least, living up to its promise to be an unconference. About 40 innovators and entrepreneurs gathered at …
Publish first, police second… is that how it works?
The other evening I watched some of the Channel 4 documentary Coppers, in which UK police officers were sharing their disquiet about how people they …
Never rest on your assumptions
According to this heat map of geo-tagged Tweets around the world, Indonesia is where most of the Tweets in the world are coming from today, …
How Howard does it: attention master at work
This is a great video in which Howard Rheingold (using Screenr, an interesting Twitter screencasting tool) explains his process, his workflow, for gathering information and …
Polluting the streams, pruning the networks…
* * UPDATED: corrected from draft which was published. Facts/links/opinions unaltered. * * Alan Patrick’s pure class in my book. His blog is prickly, argumentative …
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, …
Massively un-orchestrated
The last seven days have been a proud period for Twitter in the UK. First up, the power of networks blew apart an arguably unconstitutional …
Tweet’s anatomy: Microsoft retweet research (Pls RT)
Frankly I think my spell-checker’s a bit of laggard when it comes to the social web. But, bless it, it’s learning fast at the moment… …
Learning to read Twitter
Twitter. It’s all about learning to see it. Out of utter respect for Howard Rheingold (and a weariness of Twitter neologisms) I’m going to stick …