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Bit late in sharing this brilliance – perfect for a Friday

October 30th, 2009 · Comments

I’ve seen this posted elsewhere (Hat tip to Rax and Dave) but it’s too good not to share on the off-chance you haven’t seen it.
It’s a lovely Flash app monitoring stats on social media compiled original in September by Gary Hayes, and is very good, entertaining, enlightening, and potentially scary if you’re nervous about what’s [...]

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Tags: Digital Culture

About the community, by the community

February 6th, 2009 · Comments

Here’s a good example of changing the way we do things, by the always interesting Neil Perkin at Only Dead Fish, from an idea by the also always interesting Herdmeister. And like most good ideas, it’s blindingly obvious when you see someone else do it!
Basically Neil was due to present at a conference on the [...]

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Tags: Presentations · community · social media marketing

Max Gogarty and The Guardian – From mistake, to farce, to learning

February 20th, 2008 · Comments

I was ready to lay into The Guardian again, as the whole Max Gogarty controversy seemed to be missing the basic point of blogging. Besides the issues of nepotism, and class, the controversy would have been much less if blogging had been explained and implemented properly, criticism had been pro-actively responded to, and it The [...]

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Tags: Blogging · user generated content

Contributing to the internet for more than just recognition…

January 30th, 2008 · Comments

I’ve had several conversations about user generated content with my colleague and fellow blogger David Cushman (and you can read his take here.)
Any online submission or rating system needs to have some reward to make the time invested worthwhile. And most of the current models use recognition as that reward, including Digg and Del.icio.us.
But the [...]

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Tags: user generated content