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…

22Oct/13

Twitter Hours, the Cargo Cults of online networking.

22 October 2013social mediaTwitter hourJon Bounds

For a thing, I’ve been investigating some Twitter communities I wouldn’t usually go anywhere near. Most due to lack of interest but one sort due to a distaste of a lot ofRead 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…

19Mar/12

Twitizen Kane

19 March 2012my projects, social media, writingart, Citizen Kane, twitterJon Bounds

Yesterday, I tried the Twitpanto method on “the greatest film ever made”. As part of  ‘Yarn presents Five Stories High’ at Flatpack Festival, I re-interpreted around ten minutes of Citizen Kane. It wasRead 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…

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…

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…