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ASH-10 is the banner under which I hire myself out for Internet consultancy, training, content production and public speaking.
This site contains details of the services I offer and a blog covering the work I've done.
I also blog more generally at I Am Pete Ashton and am active on Twitter. All my online presences are listed here.
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Recent Blog Posts
- Walled Gardens of Ping
- Slices of soup – towards a new definition of local media
- Human Corporations
- My take on social media’s role in the cat-bin-lady-cctv thing
- Revised services
- Surgeries for the first week in August
- Wrong head on
- A surgery success
- More about influence being different online
- Surgeries on Tuesday 27th and Friday 30th July
- Surgeries for 19th – 23rd July
- Perpetual Change
- ASH-10 Surgeries: July 13-15
- Social Media and Globalisation – the audio
- Stuff worth reading
Recent Blog Comments
- Pete Ashton on Slices of soup – towards a new definition of local media
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- Tan on My take on social media’s role in the cat-bin-lady-cctv thing
Category Archives: Essays
Sharing the booty
The discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo Saxon gold has understandably gotten a lot of coverage today with the news outlets doing a pretty good job (from my positional as a layman) of explaining the significance and importance of … Continue reading
Digital Britain needs real Digital Literacy
Lord Carter is unveiling his Digital Britain report thingy today. There’s been a lot of talk about this though it’s sometimes hard to get your head around exactly what it’s about since the scope is huge. But one key thing … Continue reading
Stop seeing BBC online as a threat to your business model
Another week, another article from a local newspaper person moaning about how the BBC is all unfair and that what with their license fee and everything. This time it’s Marc Reeves, editor of the Birmingham Post, declaring the BBC’s spread … Continue reading
The power of fun
Today there was a “suspect package” in Digbeth, Birmingham, which meant the roads were shut and buses diverted for the afternoon. Since I tend to get a bus into Digbeth most afternoons I went to Twitter to find out what … Continue reading
Two points about the alleged “death of blogging”
Today saw the most spectacular example of link bating in a long while when Paul Boutin wrote in Wired that blogging is so 2004 and that Flickr, Twitter and Facebook had all but killed it. Normally one would ignore such … Continue reading