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Caught by a Spy – Easier Than it Sounds
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If you are a regular Twitter user, you might have noticed that half of the world seems to have become a spy catcher of late. It turns that catching a spy via Twitter is easier than you might think. It also has some consequences for social capital, information security and general communication noise too. You are a very fortunate individual [...]
Replying Via Twitter
(click and rate it) Loading ...Today’s Twitter rage prompts me to write about @Replies. The habit of putting an “@” symbol in front of a Twitter message, to ‘direct’ it towards another user – has a curious history. They weren’t part of the original design of Twitter, which started as a micro-blogging platform, not an instant messaging system. As early [...]
Creating Valuable Artefacts
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Artefacts - things left behind by ancient civilisations. Tangible items that remain, things that you can see and hold, that give a sense of history. “Create valuable artefacts.” I’m not sure where the phrase originated, but it is one that has stuck with me for many years. It might have come from a conversation with a developer, in talking [...]
Digital Britain Amplified
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Yesterday was a day of three parts, so it seems apt that this post is too. A kind of triage of threes as it were. Part I – A Digital Dawn I crawled out of bed in the early hours for an 8am meeting in London, at NESTA’s offices. Lord Carter, Neil Berkett (CEO Virgin [...]
One Thing To Get Through Tough Times
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There’s a spate of posts on “things to do to get through the current economic climate“. I have to confess most of them washed past me. It is not that they didn’t have good advice, it is just that it was mostly things that should be done at the best of times too. Likewise, at each [...]
Twestival (updated)
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It started with a conversation, and is ending in hundreds of events around the world. Tonight I am on BBC ONE talking about Twitter, and hopefully not sounding too much like a geek. I was on the evening news talking about Twitter: Twittering On BBC. People in the UK and all around the world have dedicated much [...]
Social Decision Making – Shirky JP and Democracy
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This is the second post on Clay Shirky’s talk at LSE, looking at some of the same issues raised, but in the context of decision making and crowd sourced wisdom. I hinted at some of my thoughts in the previous post (Mass Collaboration Snow Joke), and JP has also blogged about it, based on Clay [...]
