• Social Media vs the Dictator – Clay Shirky

    Lessons learned. The social context of technological-use is as important as the technology itself (try telling that to the practical minded Dictator!)

  • Quick Response: Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 #oxsmc09

    (Transcript below if you can’t follow my polemical prose; and sorry but the synchronisation in this clip has a mind of its own). I attended the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on Friday (18 September) at the Said Business School. The theme of the Convention was ‘assessing the evolution, impact and potential of social media’;…

  • Last day at King’s College London…

    It crept up a lot quicker than I expected but it is my last day at King’s College London tomorrow.  It was a enriching and worldly experience full of dramas and triumphs and highs and lows and new experiences. The world got a hell of a lot bigger and through King’s I discovered something special…

  • Headsup

    (Another online political engagement innovation from the Hansard Society). HeadsUp is a moderated, online space for under 18s to debate the political issues important to them. Young people share viewpoints with their peers and decision-makers up and down the country (link).

  • TheyWorkForYou.com

    On of the best online political engagement sites in the UK is the TheyWorkForYou.com which is a system that monitors your local Member of Parliament’s voting patterns/speeches (in my case Meg Hillier in Hackney South/ Shoreditch).

  • State of the Blogosphere

    Here is the annual Technorati State of the Blogosphere (2008) report: Welcome to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 report, which will be released in five consecutive daily segments. Since 2004, our annual study has unearthed and analyzed the trends and themes of blogging, but for the 2008 study, we resolved to go beyond the…