Social media, consultancy, training and advice from a flâneur of the internets. Blogger, writer, broadcaster and runner of Birmingham: It's Not Shit.
January 19th, 2010

Huge list of tools for visualising data

When people talk "mash-ups" they often really mean interesting ways of viewing data. This is a huge list of mostly free tools for doing that visualisation. [link]

November 5th, 2009

10 local government social media myths

Nice bit of mythbusting — most of which apply to all sorts of situations: [link]

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October 27th, 2009

Credit cards and store cards: an official translation

Corinne at Simply Understand has been voluntarily translating consultations into understandable English for about a year — even crowdsoursing as to which were the most important to give their time to. This great work has obviously been noticed by the team at BIS who have asked her to produce a version of their Credit and store card consultation. There's a Plain English version and even a "podcast" (well and audio version).

Why the official consultation can't be written in Plain English I don't know, but this is a step in — sort of — the right direction. [link]

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September 16th, 2009

Maptivism: Maps for activism, transparency and engagement : crisscrossed blog

"It is estimated as much as 80% of data contains geo-referenced information. So, a lot of information can be displayed through maps. Digital maps allow easy ways to present large amounts of data and reduce complexity." Nice introduction to some mapping concepts, with examples: [link]

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August 7th, 2009

Greenbelt blog

I'm speaking a the Greenbelt festival in Cheltenham, three times (which came as a shock). I've not written anything to say yet, but it will be something along these lines. I'm mainly doing Birmingham and psychogeography, with a little bit of internets thrown in. [link]

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June 11th, 2009

Save Our Sounds – Audio Map

The BBC World Service is creating an audio map of the World, with user submitted sounds. No tagging unfortunately, and the description box is likely to be nudged towards the descriptive rather than the emotional but some interesting stuff to be had nonetheless — let's hope the database is opened up. [link]

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June 11th, 2009

Midlands Media Awards People’s Choice

Big City Talk is up for the Midlands Media Awards People’s Choice Award. The awards are to “recognise an individual or group that has used social media tools to make a difference”. The Brum Bloggers Social Media Surgeries are also on the list, as is the 4am Project. [link]

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June 10th, 2009

Guido Fawkes and his blog comment policy

Although his political blog is often a place for sniping and argumentative comments (following perhaps in the style of the posts), this is a very clear piece of work. It sets out in a friendly (as friendly as the blog gets), conversational, tone just what is and isn't allowed in the comments on order-order.com.

While every point isn't transferable to all blogs, I for example love a long an detailed response to any post on sites I run, it's useful to read it and to think about how comments add value to a site — or even possibly detract. If it's a personal blog, it's very much "your gaff, your rules" and if you set them out no-one can argue. [link]

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May 22nd, 2009

My interview with David Shrigley

It seems a long time since I interviewed one of my favourite artists, but it's out now in the latest issue of the great Fused Magazine. [link]

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May 20th, 2009

Seventeen things that people are actually saying when they retweet others – meish dot org: life, unfolding

"Retweeting (that is, repeating someone else’s tweet, with attribution) has emerged from daily twittering habits and has become part of Twitter’s cultural vocabulary. The idea of rebroadcasting something interesting/funny you’ve spotted isn’t new, and the custom of acknowledging your sources isn’t particularly revolutionary either, but what is interesting is that not all retweets (RTs) are alike." [link]

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