
Connective intelligence on politics and news at #1pound40
Last Wednesday was the latest incarnation of Amplified, the network of networks that a group of us started last year, and which has grown and evolved in to a grass roots, non-profit movement of likeminded practitioners in many fields connected together by the social media topic. The £1.40 Unconference, was hosted in excellent surroundings at […]

Radian6 – Aggregating Opinion
I’ve long been a proponent of new web plays looking to find an offering that aggregate rather than create content. In this world there is no end of data available to us but what we lack is ways to aggregate that data, obtain analysis from it and, at the end of the day, derive insight […]

The Irony of Google Ads
I often wrote about misplaced “contextual” ads that created undesirable situations, but this is something else. The Google Ad I saw today is ironic on so many levels, I don’t even know where to begin. Dan Lyons a.ka. Fake Steve Jobs wrote about how he quits blogging, as there is no money in it: While […]

Credit Crunch Has Reached the Blogosphere
The Credit Crunch has reached bloggers: it is now a WordPress Theme by Eric, developer of the lightweight theme I use on my personal blog. Eric is also the developer who first turned Google Chrome into a theme… Before you ask, no, I haven’t found a "Recession" WordPress theme – yet. On (somewhat) related note, […]