From the Agora to the Blogosphere, and Beyond
Yesterday I noticed a couple of announcements for London social media events in the fall: a Twitter 101 TechAlliance Breakfast Club on October 14 starring @billdeys, @ericablonde, and @titusferguson a...
View ArticleAnother Look at LDNbeta
No I haven’t forgot about the little endeavour I launched in May: I started thinking we need someplace to just try stuff. If it works, then great: we can replicate it on our own sites or even develop...
View ArticleHave Any Favourite Posts?
I’m working on trying to select and organize some of my best posts into a book I’ll publish through Lulu. If you have any you like — or stuck in your mind at least — or if you’ve been reading without...
View ArticleUncovering London Ontario’s Economy
This might seem like a joke or a bunch of rhetoric but it isn’t. Ok, maybe it’s somewhat extremely rhetorical — but no less serious: What exactly is supposed to come out of this economic summit on...
View ArticleThe New Digital World-View
[Here's a bit I've got so far prefacing That Project Provisionally Called a Book.] Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg’s book about “how blogging began, where it’s going, and why it matters,” begins on the...
View ArticleOur Greek World
I’ve been meaning to do one of these Open Yale Courses online for a while. I’d love to watch Robert Shiller’s course in financial markets (I think Shiller is great but I’m undecided how much I can...
View ArticleBest Of: Social Media in London
Brogan says it’s ok to do these so, ok, here’s the best of my posts about London Ontario so far. I noticed when I started putting them together they sort of make a case… but you’ll have to create your...
View ArticleMemo to Professional Media: “Stop Resisting!”
At the London Free Press, Ian Gillespie warns of the hazards of the internet: Watching that 90-second video [here], it’s hard — no, make that impossible — to see or know exactly what’s going on. But...
View ArticleFeed Frenzy: More Ways to Subscribe
I’m becoming more promiscuous as a content-producer. Several people have joked about how many blogs I have going. Then Bill suggested I should publish an all-in-one feed. I decided to set up a few more...
View ArticleSocial Media Epistemology
With so many people claiming to be social media experts we just as often hear “there are no social media experts.” There certainly are a lot of people who can generate a whole bunch of verbiage, but...
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London, City of Opportunity: Journalism Edition
Part of a new series I’m starting to explore social, creative, and economic opportunities specific to London Ontario. Recently I posted about the benefits of educating citizens to think like...
View ArticleFrom Public Theatre to Public Theory
Few people would disagree that as more brands & memes vie for our attention, the simple act of communicating has become an accelerating arms race. We shouldn’t necessarily complain. Not more than a...
View ArticleSmarter Twitter Lists Make Smarter People
Selection is a natural; so is categorizing; so is ranking; so is list-making. We owe a lot of great things to the human tendency to rank & classify. We wouldn’t have science (and therefore we...
View ArticleOur Web and the Will to Believe
Late last night I had a serious lapse of faith in social media — as we all must from time to time. We should have serious doubts questions about this stuff… Which is why I chuckle whenever I read...
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