A couple of summers ago I got chatting to a guy in the queue to pick up a hire car at Palma airport. Turned out he was an independent cheesemaker from Devon. We nattered for a while in the air-conditioned office whilst our respective families melted in the Majorcan heat …
Crowdlistr is a simple, smart idea that adds value to Twitter users who are interested in community. It allows you to open your Twitter lists such that, rather than self-curating, other users can add themselves. It facilitates a crowd-sourced approach to creating a Twitter list. You create a list in …
I received this notification on Facebook this morning. It does not compute. LinkedIn is for professional networking. Facebook is for friends. Ne’er the twain shall meet. Thanks but no thanks to BranchOut. And bloody typical that the only immediate response options are Like, Comment, Accept. No “Thanks But No Thanks” …
A bold claim I know. But if this post on the All Facebook blog isn’t the most fatuous piece of Facebook statusness of 2011 then “I just had Shreddies for breakfast. LOL.” All Facebook, and it’s counterpart (competitor?) Inside Facebook, usually provide a valuable early warning and insight service for …
I beg to differ. This is uncool in so many ways. On the face of it, it shouldn’t be uncool. But it is. Climbing Everest is cool. Being able to share your experiences with others in real time is cool too. But, put those things together, and the effect is …
Culling is usually only required when natural selection, or more precisely nature itself, fails to control relative populations of species in an ecosystem. It’s either natural selection or culling. One or t’other. Well I’ve used both to reduce the number of people I follow on Twitter. One of my …
William Thatcher (aka Ulrich Von Lichtenstein, and played by the late Heath Ledger RIP) is the hero of the highly under-rated film A Knight’s Tale. He is a commoner who accidentally on purpose becomes a knight. Here’s a trailer for the film. It’s well worth a regard if you haven’t …
What’s all this about then? These started appearing in spaces usually reserved for Facebook advertising yesterday. Pretty random to say the least. Random in that I can’t see the point. Random in that there doesn’t appear to be much in the way of rhyme nor much in the way of …
Every time you say “social media” someone somewhere drowns a kitten. I said this during a presentation at the Social Media Academy‘s “Social Media In Scotland” conference a few weeks ago. I said it with the best intentions. I was trying to make the point that lazy language can be …
Trying to be something you’re not is too much like hard work. It’s usually stressful and almost always unsustainable. Even if it is with the best intentions. Just ask Bart Simpson, who radically alters his behaviour to impress a virtuous girl called Jenny (voiced by Anne Hathaway no less) in …
