I was on holiday last week (it was lovely, thanks) and was uploading pictures every couple of days to Flickr. When I spotted a spike in the number of views my photos had had I assumed it was someone subjecting themselves to my holiday snaps. In fact one of my

I’ve found it quite interesting seeing what sorts of social media scenes are  in other cities/towns around the country. Especially as things are maturing to the point where there’s a bit of cross-pollination and influence going on and Amplified looks to be tying everything together. From what

I’m a fan of R4’s Thinking Allowed, a show that discusses the latest social science research in accessible, bite-sized chunks. I tend to listen to the podcasts on the way back from footy every week and they usually give a bit of an insight into areas I knew

The concept of the artist/writer/poet/dancer-in-residence at museums, art galleries, exhibitions and, occasionally, corporate environments is pretty much part of the artistic landscape now. I’d like to put forward the idea of the blogger-in-residence. I’ve been thinking about this for a little while and, especially when

One evening at the end of November a few of us from the Midlands trotted down to London for an event called Amplified. The aim of Amplified is to bring together the many digital/social media/innovation networks dotted all over the country – networking the networks. The idea is to

I’ve been sorting this out a bit recently and really this post is for my own benefit as much as anyone else’s – kinda like putting a marker down and giving myself a structure to work in.  Here’s what I’m putting where: * Here – ok, so I can’

A couple of weeks ago I was invited down to Big London for Microsoft’s CESfest, a small event tying in with the CES expo in Las Vegas. I was invited down with a bunch of other bloggers and found it interesting, although not necessarily for the reasons advertised. Ostensibly,

This morning I was interviewed by the very nice Phil Upton on BBC WM’s breakfast show. I was there to talk about Created in Birmingham’s feat in winning the award of Best UK Blog 2008. You can listen again here (I’m on at around 2 hours 20

I’m often on the look-out for ways of presenting the concept of what social media ‘is’, especially animated ones (I’m an absolute sucker for animation in its many guises). Here are a few easily-digestable faves: I only came across this one the other day. It was produced by

Of all the Twitter visualisations I think this is my favourite so far. It’s a Yahoo! Pipes/Google Charts mashup made by Xefer which plots the frequency of tweets and replies by day and hour. More importantly it looks kinda cool. You can see my original and/or make