Android
I don’t often go out of my way to link to stuff I write elsewhere – but this once, I’m going to. I’ve done a piece for the NEXT Berlin blog on why I think the iOS versus Android fanboy wars are deeply unhelpful [http://nextco.nf/Ujmwl6]
branch
Branch [http://branch.com], a new discussion platform for the interwebs is out of beta [http://bulletin.branch.com/post/29351108916/welcome-to-branch], but not out of needing an invite to get in. Ah, well. Until we hoi polloi are allowed in to play, we can gaze adoringly at on-going Branches,
Blogging
I am a perpetual floating voter. I have political opinions, but no strong party loyalty – and I’ve voted for all the main parties and some minority ones in the elections I’ve participated in over the last couple of decades. There’s a simple reason for this: I believe
comments
More essential reading for Saturday morning (time for a second cuppa), this time about the relationship between news and online communities [http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/newspapers-get-the-kind-of-communities-they-deserve/] : > Our comments routinely point us in the direction of new angles for stories, and in many cases commenters have become sources
community
Forrester’s new Social Technographics Profile report [http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,55132,00.html] hit the interwebs a few weeks back. (I’m catching up on my Safari tabs, can you tell?) A couple of key points in the accompanying blog post [http://blogs.forrester.
comments
Those naughty folks at Computer Weekly‘s Downtime blog [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/IT-downtime-blog/2008/03/comments-we-love-them-what-do.html] are taking the mickey out of one of my colleagues [http://engagement101.blogspot.com/2008/03/ribbed-for-their-pleasure.html] with this video: Now, I reckon that that they’re missing the point
