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How to do a Collective Memory

In July 2007 on Created in Birmingham I coined the term “Collective Memory” to describe a blog post which collects all the writing, photos and video that are put online after a large event found by searching the Internet for mentions of that event. The first one was for an event called Rootsville where I [...]

How the US Air Force reacts to blog posts

Sometimes you find resources in the most unlikely places. Here’s a flow chart produced by Capt. David Faggard, Chief of Emerging Technology for the US Air Force, to help Airmen deal, assess, evaluate and respond to blog posts.

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It comes (in the usual roundabout way) from this fascinating investigation by David Meerman Scott into [...]

Social Media at the Victoria and Albert

On December 4th I attended C:Cubed, a event put on by Arts Council England and Screen West Midlands to bring people from the arts together with people from the digital, or wherever people like myself come from. The focus was on how arts organisations could do projects within the remit of the 4IP fund but [...]

Trust is the best tool

A Twitter update from Rory Cellan-Jones asked “what are the best web tools for journalists? I’m giving a seminar for colleagues tomorrow – so what do you find most useful?” I seem to spend a fair bit of time watching how journalists engage with the internet because those that don’t have their heads in the [...]