29Sep/10

Is Birmingham Happy?

29 September 2010future web, geodata, my projects, portfolio, social media, social media work, twitter, web development workanew, birminghamuk, conversational psychogeography, emotion, is brum happy, psychogeography, sentiment analysis, twitter, wormalJon Bounds

I’ve been running a, very rough, scrape of the Birmingham (UK) based interweb for ’emotional wellbeing’ since April of 2008. Simply put a script running twice a day read in Tweets, newsRead More…

10Sep/10

Mayors, badges, and blue plaques?

10 September 2010future web, geodatablue plaques, foursquare, geolocation, heritageJon Bounds

What’s Foursquare for? I think people are still working it out. While the benefits for businesses of being able to target customers and record movement are interesting (and would be much improved withRead More…

10Sep/10

Chernobyl Fallout

10 September 2010future web, good practice, social mediaautoposting, Eddie Fewtrell, facebook, Gaia, twitter, uk.local.birmingham, usenetJon Bounds

“What would happen if the world were suddenly without people; if humans vanished off the face of the earth? How would nature react —and how swiftly?” That’s the question asked by theRead More…

24Aug/10

The future of publishing

24 August 2010future web, my projects, social media, twitter, writing workDirty Bristow, magazine, online, paywallJon Bounds

If there’s one thing that fills the web more than cat pictures it’s ruminations on the state, past or future of newspapers and magazines. The truth is old models are failing andRead More…

09Aug/10

Lost and Found

9 August 2010future web, social media, twittercats, local, pets, social webJon Bounds

Meet Scabbycat. He pitched up in our front yard last week sometime. He’s okay, bit neglected looking — but doesn’t have plans to leave, so we’re looking after him as best weRead More…

03Aug/10

Chaos

3 August 2010future web, social mediachaos, communication, consultationJon Bounds

When chaos runs slowly enough it can look like calm. But it’s still chaos. There has been chaos within the methods of communication used between authority and those it claims authority overRead More…

27Jul/10

Is Flipboard that ‘just good enough’ RSS reader?

27 July 2010future web, social mediaflipboard, rssJon Bounds

A few posts ago I postulated that for most people, for most types of ‘news’ algorithms based around attention and the social graph may well be almost good enough to replace theRead More…

15Jul/10

The public/private problem

15 July 2010future web, social mediaGazza, media, politics, private, publicJon Bounds

People in difficult situations have always relied on dark humour to get them through, police, doctors, solders are well known for it. Private grief or impotent horror at public events produces jokesRead More…

14Jul/10

“Just good enough” and why RSS readers might be skip-tech

14 July 2010future web"just good enough", rss, skip-tech, social newsJon Bounds

As I said, I don’t see QR codes ever being widely accepted in the UK, easier and lower impact methods of getting to the right web content have already started to takeRead More…

07Jul/10

Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus

7 July 2010future web, good practice, social mediaclass, clay shirky, Cognitice Surplus, representation, revolutionJon Bounds

George Orwell said, in an essay of fulsome praise of the man and his work, that Charles Dickens “was not a revolutionary writer”. He didn’t mean that Dickens wasn’t capable of orRead More…