a blog about information
It’s been one of those truly lazy days, so I think I’ll start seriously sideways. Twitter. Hmmm. The first time that I can remember coming across the word “twitter” was when I was reading Wordsworth as a boy. [Yes, I know, I have been Confused a looong time]. Here’s the first stanza of the poem … Continue reading “A sideways look at Twitter in the Enterprise”
Introduction A few days ago I mused about when media is social; I particularly wanted to highlight the need to separate social media from broadcast media, and how that could take some of the toxicity and polarisation out of the environment and help bring us back to places where civil discourse is possible. Today I … Continue reading “The trust level of the room”
Broadcast is not social You’re in a conversation with others in an open, public place. An airport, a railway station, a shopping mall. And then someone says something on the tannoy, for example about the train on platform 14 being delayed. It’s useful. It may even be useful to you. But it’s not social. The … Continue reading “When is media social?”
(*I do have the original brochure, which I photographed for this post. But it’s not the one I left the ground with in 1966. I acquired this one at a second-hand at a book fair decades later.) 1. Introduction I love cricket. I went to my first Test match fifty-five years ago today. And that’s … Continue reading “Why I love cricket – A long slow post”
Some of you have been conversing with me, not only via this blog, but also intermittently via other channels, principally facebook and twitter. Blogs are conversations about the provisional, and I learn from your comments and pointers. By now you’re used to my whims and vagaries. You know I try and write about information using … Continue reading “Thinking about cricket and open data and platforms”