Category Archives: Theorising

Influence is weird

This morning I found myself on a list of Birmingham’s most influential Twitter users blogged by one of our PR agencies. Which was nice. Now, please don’t take this as me being blasé or modest but I think it’s important … Continue reading

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Connected doesn’t always mean digitally connected

Last Thursday I attended 4ip’s Recasting Power event in Birmingham. With presentations including Stoke’s grass-roots website Pits ‘n’ Pots and Nick Booth talking about Help Me Investigate and Big City Talk, a panel of politicians discussed with the audience what … Continue reading

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Surfing the web with blinkers on

The other week I was talking to Joanna Geary (web development editor at The Times) about how people consume (if that’s the right word) the news her company puts out there and got thinking about the phenomena where a journalist … Continue reading

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Coworking and Internet Culture

At Moseley Barcamp last week I did a short talk about the Coworking movement, specifically looking at how it differs from similar notions of collective activity by being informed my Internet culture. My aim was to take a snapshot of … Continue reading

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Do we need to rethink Good-Cheap-Fast?

This set of rules popped into my head today while grazing my Twitter: For most things this is a no-brainer. To do sometime better takes time while costs more. Easy. But I’m wondering if social media tools, and the Internet … Continue reading

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