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Why I write a blog

Lately I have been spending as much time talking about why I write my blog as I do actually writing it. Its interesting – I am having these conversations with all sorts of people – old friends, current and past work mates, people I meet for the first time, even family members.

Some people are generally [...]

January 17th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: social media, web 2.0 | Leave a comment

3 new social media friends

HTML5, microformats and next generation search – 3 things which you should probably become acquainted with this year if you work in the area of social media or web 2 development.

Why? Because they are crucial to driving forward their adoption.

Peter Kim recently did some research into Social Media Predictions for 2009 – here is his [...]

January 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: social media, web 2.0, web development | Leave a comment

Change

This morning I saw a story on CNN about change.gov. It’s a website set up by the Obama transition team to harvest ideas and feedback on their policies, priorities and so on.

When browsing for it, I accidentally discovered another “change” website. This one is change.org, calling itself a “social action network”.

The great thing about these [...]

December 13th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: social media, web 2.0 | Leave a comment