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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 [...]

Physician, heal thyself – Bookmarking with Delicious

As I enter a period of deliberate downtime over the summer to recharge my batteries (more on this later I hope) I’ve started thinking about my own social media strategy a bit more. When I started the ASH-10 blog last year it was in a bit of rush and it took a good few months [...]

Tracking comments with Delicious.com

I’ve been using the social bookmarking service Delicious.com for more and more things recently, very few of them related to traditional bookmarking. I’m planning to write more about how I use it as I think it illustrates a lot of interesting things about the underlying technology of the social web, but for now he’s a [...]