29Jun/14

Email to the Editor of The Birmingham Mail

29 June 2014twitterJon Bounds

Below is a copy of an email that I have just sent to David Brookes, editor of the Birmingham Mail. Dear Sir, I would like your thoughts on a series of ‘similarities’Read More…

25Jul/12

Improving the happiness index

25 July 2012twitterconversational psychogeography, oxford, oxforduk, twitterJon Bounds

After my talk at Oxford Geek Night I was happy to have a couple of suggestions to see if the algorithm could produce better results. One was to remove retweets from theRead More…

19Jul/12

Is Oxford happy?

19 July 2012art, birminghamuk, social media, twitterbirminghamuk, conversational psychogeography, oxford, twitterJon Bounds

After moving down to Oxford I did an update of my Birmingham Emotions conversational psychogeography project. That’s now quite simple as I have built a ‘happy monitor’ that can centre anywhere. I’mRead 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…

03May/11

Excellent Engagement

3 May 2011good practice, microblogging, social media, twitterengagement, local sports team, the simpsons, twitterJon Bounds

Content, interaction, community—that’s what your social media profile is all about. It’s a message that seems to have hit most brands, and organisations right down to the smallest. But from what I’mRead More…

19Jan/11

Is Twitter about to do a mass reclaim of unused accounts?

19 January 2011twitterclosing accounts, twitterJon Bounds

It’s easy to sign up for a Twitter account, all you need is an email address. It used to be even easier, they weren’t even verified. I have, I estimate, about a hundred—lots usedRead 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…

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…

24Sep/10

Loose Tweets Sink Fleets

24 September 2010good practice, twitteradvice, tweets, twitterJon Bounds

…or otherwise carefully crafted communications anyway. If you’re newish to Twitter and attempting to communicate with people to achieve anything more than a way to update friends or follow people you likeRead More…

21Sep/10

Mind Your Language

21 September 2010good practice, twitterlanguageJon Bounds

We’re all aware, or should be, of the power of language. It’s one of the central ideas of 1984, that you can direct or restrict thought by what words you use forRead More…