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The new social scene – Seesmic and Twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutes How many of you have a wifi enabled laptop. How many of you have a wap enabled phone. How many of you have msn messenger. The reason I’m asking you this question is the following. I’ve been using twitter for several months now and it’s whilst working on my dissertation that I wrote the most….

Thoughts on Teamwork

Reading Time: 3 minutes Teamwork is a pain because it requires the collaboration of others. As Social Media people this may not sound like a challenge to you since you love having un-conferences and such but to others it’s a real challenge. Someone currently living in my home was telling me about how she would have to do the…

Why people going to the graduation are enjoying a farce

Reading Time: < 1 minute If I came from a prestigious university like Cambridge, Oxford or many others were the university is steeped in century old traditions then I would feel a great inclination to go to my graduation. As things stand I don’t feel any need. Everyone else would go to lectures and leave as soon as they could,…

Welcome to the tweekend

Reading Time: < 1 minute The tweekend is a weekend spent reading twitter posts by all those you are following. I found out about this word earlier today because i am following twitionary, an amusing dictionary that takes twitter terminology and brings it into every day parlance. No self respecting twitterholic should live without it. Kidding aside another twittervox took…

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Open Social vs Portal facebook

Reading Time: 2 minutes Loudmouthman, amongst others was expressing his desire for a means by which to aggregate all our online data through one central account. I though of Freebase and Openid and how they could work. Google though had other thoughts. Whilst Facebook behaves like a portal opensocial helps agggregate content. Facebook assumes thatyou come to their website,…

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Discussing NewBcamp introduced a new point of view

Reading Time: 2 minutes Twittervox is back on the air and there will be an episode at some point this afternoon, probably around 4pm GMT. During the most recent episode we were discussing Podcamp Boston 2 and one of the people that joined the conversation was Sara Steeler of Pygmae and NewBcamp. Her ideas are interesting because she wants…

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Learning more about Dziga Vertov and his views on cinema

Reading Time: < 1 minute Dziga Vertov is an interesting personality because of his ideas of the Cinema eye. His notion was that with the cinema eye, the Kino Glaz you could capture life unawares whilst being involved in the creative treatment of actuality. After making some quick money by answering some social networking questions I dropped by the apple…