David Cameron & Twitter

Thursday, 30 July 2009, 9:43 | Category : Communications
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David Cameron speaking at NESTA
Originally uploaded by conservativepartyuk

Did you hear? David Cameron – the Leader of the Opposition in the UK (Conservative) – went on the O’Connell radio show and managed to swear twice. I’m sorry that I don’t find this exciting or important.
What I do find important is Cameron’s view on Twitter.
“The trouble with [...]

Check your facts, check again (and you are still wrong)

Saturday, 23 May 2009, 22:37 | Category : Social Media
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Here is a massive failure story of mine and a how-not-to-do-it.
Browsing through my feeds I noticed a blog post I thought I had seen somewhere else. I looked into it. I had. I looked into it some more. I went into the ‘offending’ blog. More blog posts I had seen before. Granted, I have bad [...]

Social media can help 'old media' get better

Thursday, 11 December 2008, 14:26 | Category : News, Social Media
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With the monitoring and analysis of social media by the journalists and analysts of the ‘old media’ we are seeing a vast improvement in the coverage of international news – especially when it comes to understanding the cultural, economic and political background.
There is a very good reason why. ‘Old media’ either have a correspondent in [...]

Exarcheia: Lament for a city

Monday, 8 December 2008, 10:51 | Category : News
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I lived the first years of my adult new found independence in the Athens area of Exarcheia and I have some of my best memories from that time and that area.
Contrary to some reports, Exarcheia is not “a district of central Athens long associated with lawlessness and drug abuse” (via). It is an area of extremes, [...]