Meeker’s Internet Trends: “Re-imagining nearly everything”
The annual presentation of internet trends by long-time influential technology analyst and commentator Mary Meeker has become a kind of a “state of the web …
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Wishing web
I have a playful rule of thumb: If you wish there was an app or site for something, more often than not there is…
Online reputation management for artists – notes and slides from talk at Brighton Digital Festival
These are the notes and my presentation slides that will kick things off at this evening’s discussion evening at the Fabrica gallery in Brighton. This …
Adam Curtis on the struggle to tell the story on (and of) the web – Notes from The Story – Pt 2
* * Update: the audio for this talk is live at the Storythings blog * * We’re not progressing through the day in chronological order, …
SuperSkills talk at TEDxBrighton
The video of my SuperSkills talk a couple of weeks ago is up on the TEDx Brighton site and YouTube now. The SuperSkills idea was …
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!?! …
Platform fixation vs. pattern recognition
(NB: I *know* – I’m late with this. What? I’ve had a break. It was Christmas…) That TIME magazine’s judging panel refused to listen to …
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 …
Media in the age of networks: the decay/evolution of advertising models
The Association of Publishing Agencies first International Content Summit was a great event to attend, as a speaker and a delegate. As well as the …
Mining the where: CIA-funded start-up says 80% of online content contains location information
Last week at Local Social Summit I talked about some of the issues around location and privacy. Especially problematic is people’s inadvertent tagging of their …