Monthly Archives: July 2009

Stuff I’ve been reading

Media as a hobby is not sustainable as a business – broadstuffGreat article by Alan Patrick. "We tend to forget that the reason for profits is unique access to bottleneck resources. In the case of the media it has been … Continue reading

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How to do a Collective Memory

This article is out of date – some techniques no longer work and new ones have arrived on the scene. But the basic principles still apply. In July 2007 on Created in Birmingham I coined the term “Collective Memory” to … Continue reading

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Twitter at Supersonic – some early data

The obligatory Wordle. Click for legible. The Twitter experiment at the Supersonic Festival went pretty well, I think. I’ll be playing around with the data and writing a full report soon but in the meanwhile here’s some very rough and … Continue reading

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Stuff I’ve been reading

You are not your brand online — and especially not on TwitterJon Bounds addresses the issue of people setting up Twitter accounts for their businesses and use them as individuals. He roughly divides it into two problems: 1) People that know … Continue reading

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Twittering at the Supersonic Festival

This weekend I’ll be at the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham run by Capsule running their Twitter account. I actually speculated about how this might be done 17 months ago so it’s nice to finally be able to put some ideas … Continue reading

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