Social web & social media, consultancy, training and advice from a flâneur of the internets. Blogger, writer, broadcaster and runner of Birmingham: It's Not Shit. I also do the odd bit of art.
September 15th, 2010

Hyperlocal voices: Jon Bounds of Birmingham: It’s Not Shit

I was interviewed some time ago over email by Paul Bradshaw for a series on people who had started or were running (hyper-) local blogs. It's up now on Online Journalism Blog, and is the nearest I think I've got to the reason why I (at least) persist in this area — the other pieces give most of the other reasons by other peoples. [link]

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August 26th, 2010

Synonyms For Churlish : An open letter to the marketing dude at the National Theatre who posted 'c–t' to their Twitter account

A lovely post about the nonsense that is perpetuated about Twitter accounts being "hacked" when it's either something people regret or an honest error. [link]

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July 28th, 2010

Kristine Lowe: Do you remember back when revealing an opinion could get you fired?

A great examination of what I referred to as the public/private problem. Well worth a read. [link]

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July 5th, 2010

Jon Bounds is not impressed by Nick Clegg’s Your Freedom « Labour Uncut

There are blog posts pulling apart the new Your Freedom website, but this is mine. [link]

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June 13th, 2010

Clever politicians are using the social web to make humanity scaleable, says Jon Bounds « Labour Uncut

At the Personal Democracy forum in New York I was very impressed with how Mayor of Newark Cory Boooker is using the social web to engage people. Here's a short article I wrote for Labour Uncut. [link]

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June 1st, 2010

Looking ahead at open, public data- Digital Birmingham

Good post from Si Whitehouse on some issues of public data release: "What will we do if members of the public form groups and use the newly open data to question the provision of services to marginalised groups? It is certainly possible to imagine challenges to services to refugees and asylum seekers or gay teenagers as examples of this." [link]

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May 19th, 2010

So just what is Five Minute Mentors? | We Share Stuff

A good (and quick) explanatory video about the online mentoring system we (We Share Stuff) are developing. [link]

May 19th, 2010

Jon Bounds on the half-appearance of the internet election « Labour Uncut

"it was never going to be a simple case of joining one Facebook Group over another. The web can handle nuance, even if our electoral system can’t."
A piece I've written for a new, and very promising looking political blog. [link]

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March 30th, 2010

The State of the Internet Operating System – Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly on the web as a platform, moves toward "the cloud" aren't the half of the debate – there's a battle for who will control the low level services on the web just as much as the desktop. [link]

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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]

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