It was lovely to see the Brighton digital sector highlighted in The Observer a week ago. With all the fuss about Tech City, interesting online stuff happening elsewhere is all-too-often forgotten. But what was really nice was to see the…
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Kill your antiquated article structure not your comments
David Higgerson published an interesting meditation on comments under articles yesterday. “Are comments under articles worth doing?” he asks, and flirts with the answer “no”, without coming to a definitive conclusion. The post, and the comments underneath (ironically) are well…
Media: Old, New & Social
A neat quote that encapsulates where the divide between new and social media lies: > Adriana says: “I divide between old and new media on the one hand and social media on the other hand. New media is just digitalised old…
Old Media Is Your "Trendy" Uncle
There’s an interesting post over on Kottke.org by guest blogger Aaron Cohen that points out that the speed from launch to mainstream media adoption of new social web tools is growing ever faster. I’ve been chuckling ever…
On The Web, Social Media is Just Media
On one of the training course I teach in sunny Sutton, I make the point that, from its earliest days, the internet was a social medium: usenet, irc, BBSes, e-mail discussion lists and forums were all early ways of socialising…
Why I Still Buy Magazines
3. The Atlantic I picked this excellent magazine up randomly when I was on holiday in Florida a few years back – and ended up taking out a subscription. I really wish there was a magazine like this in the UK…