This tweet got me thinking about how I use different web services and how fundamentally the value I derive from my consumption online is now dependent upon different stuff that talks to each other. Ecosystems. Tom refers to Instapaper in his tweet but I think this tool is illustrative of a broader move toward web [...]
Categories: design,socialsoftware
Tagged: design, ecosystem, instapaper, newspaper
I listened to Clever.com a programme on the excellent Analysis strand on Radio 4 on the 15th March. It was narrated by Stephen Fry and it concerned the issue of whether the web is bad for us, you know, whether it’s making us dumber, negating the need to endure pre-digital learning processes. That kind of [...]
Categories: design,media,socialsoftware
Pic via agiledogs One of the things that frustrates me about recomemndation engines, but particulaly last.fm is how bad they can be. How the slightly off-kilter recommendations are magnified a thousand times. Part of this magnification is I believe because of the fact that we’ve become atuned to believing that the software is somehow “automagic”. Whenever [...]
Categories: interaction design,socialsoftware
I got a Quechup invite yesterday from someone I know vaguely and thought I’d go and take a look. Amongst the plethora of social networking sites springing up this might have something I could learn from or indeed have a proposition of some worth, beyond collating the detritus of my "going-about-the-world" as some added value. [...]
Categories: socialsoftware
Not the snappiest of titles and this isn’t the most lucid of posts, it’s more a half-baked brain dump. Never-mind. So, of late I’ve been trying to articulate what the new media landscape looks like and how it ‘works’, to a largely lay audience. It’s hard to convey complex things simply which is perhaps why [...]
Categories: research,socialsoftware,society,software
… lots of bits. messy. Link: Twitter. Tom pointed me at twitter. It’s another one of those social networking things which is the dull bit. The interesting bit is essentially it’s playing with time. You input what you’re doing NOW. Others do and from that you get a picture, a messy picture of the social [...]
Categories: socialsoftware
The ‘life beyond the broadcast’ for BBC Weekenders seems quite healthy.Moylesy taken from kc_mcfen’s on flickr. See the pool which with 222 members and over 2300 pics as of today is up there with the Japanology pool! Woohoo. See also the weekender tags and a rather wonderful set of from ruu as well as Radio [...]
Categories: Web/Tech,design,media,socialsoftware
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } spies, originally uploaded by JamesB. The BBC has opened up its catalogue going back to 1937. Well Done MattB and Tom. It’s a wonderful thing. I worked in TV as a researcher/AP for the [...]
Categories: Web/Tech,business,media,search,socialsoftware
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Oily Bird, originally uploaded by olivander. I’m struggling with the mantra of digital strategists like Seth Godin who argues that we need to make things as simple as possible for people: We like [...]
Categories: marketing,socialsoftware,society
I’ve just read The Guardian blog post of their Media Summit event in which the great and the not-so-great speak: "Tom Coates, tech developer at Yahoo! is asked to explain exactly what social media is, and struggles. He concludes that social media sites have a sum of parts much more valuable as a resource than [...]
Categories: socialsoftware