07Nov/13

The Moran Scale of Twitterstorms

7 November 2013Conferences & Talks, microblogging, my projects, social media, social media workCaitlin Moran, TwitterstormJon Bounds

I was asked to ‘create’ a Twitterstorm as part of an art project, and I sort of did. While this wonderful Buzzfeed post describes the stages that one goes through, in orderRead More…

05Nov/13

The Eye of the Twitterstorm – xHuming Joseph Priestley

5 November 2013Conferences & Talks, my projects, social media workJon Bounds

  I’ll write up the xHumed talk asap, Joseph Priestley sending this Tweet: It is my conclusion that until they can be made safe the bi-cycle must be banned from the streetsRead More…

14May/12

Are you in a happy place?

14 May 2012social media, social media work, twitter, web development worklocation, physchogeographyJon Bounds

On Friday I got round to doing something I’d been thinking of for a long while. I added location detection to my conversational psychogeography tool. Like the Is Brum Happy? system itRead More…

16Dec/10

How Christmassy are you feeling?

16 December 2010my projects, portfolio, social media work, web development workchristmas, sentiment analysisJon Bounds

Just a little fun seasonal project I’ve made with the layout and design help of Gavin Wray. It works very much like my other sentiment analysis tools, but with a sprinkling of Santa’s magic.Read More…

02Dec/10

Sentiment Analysis of a Football Match

2 December 2010my projects, portfolio, social media, social media work, twitterfootball, sentiment analysis, twitterJon Bounds

(click through for big) Last night I turned my sentiment analysis tool on two hashtags: #bcfc and #avfc, the most widely used tags to refer to Birmingham City and Aston Villa duringRead More…

07Oct/10

Sentiment Analysis and Twitter ‘wormals’

7 October 2010Conferences & Talks, my projects, social media, social media workConservative Party Conference, cpc10, David Cameron, pdfeu, sentiment analysis, twitterJon Bounds

I’ve tried two experiments with the “is Birmingham happy” algorithm in the last few days, as they’re not based on place it makes more sense to use the popular term ‘sentiment analysis’Read More…

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…

14Apr/10

We’ve won a Webby (almost)

14 April 2010my projects, social media, social media work, twitter, writing workaward, birmingham hippodrome, jon bounds, thanks, twitpanto, webbyJon Bounds

While it’s not made the final shortlist of five, there’s still a bit to be proud of as Twitpanto has been made an Honoree (US spelling) in the 2010 Webby Awards inRead More…

12Jan/10

RSC Friends

12 January 2010my projects, social media workblogging, RSCJon Bounds

Pleased to see the RSC Friends (a subscription group who are fans of the RSC) starting to use their blog. I did a day of training with them last year, most wereRead More…

05Jan/10

WordPress MU for BEN PCT

5 January 2010my projects, social media workBEN PCT, consultancy, NHS, Substrakt, WordPress MUJon Bounds

That hail of acronyms is my way of announcing that the new site for the Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust that I’ve been consulting on is now live to theRead More…