I’ll probably use Google+ for sharing photos, but not much else, for now. It seems great for that, giving me enough reason to recommend it. For conversation and news sharing I’ll have to wait and see. I’ve wanted a way to share family photos, etc., without sharing everything with every acquaintance — not because I [...]
Tagged as: google, internet, intimacy, privacy, public sphere, secrecy, signaling, social, social media, social networking
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So I saw this SEO copywriter joke a bunch of times yesterday. I love it: “So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor” (If you don’t know what SEO copywriting is, it means writing with specific keywords in certain orders to help sites rank [...]
Tagged as: humour, jokes, memes, networks, seo, social media, social networks, twitter
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by Brian on 11-08-2010
I’ve heard great things about Zadie Smith’s work as a writer, but I had a hard time bringing myself to click on this link. The essay is about Facebook, and the generation that made it, and the movie that everyone’s talking about. It also references Jaron Lanier’s critique of the internet and adds to a growing [...]
Tagged as: change, evolution, facebook, future, generativity, meaning, philosophy, progress, social media, society, technology, twitter
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Woke up the other day and read this story about a hideous metal tree (it’s actually London’s logo — maybe one of those things that doesn’t look right on a different scale) with awkwardly-attached solar panels to symbolize London as a “clean and progressive community.” There were already some complaints on Twitter. When I saw it for [...]
Tagged as: blogging, complaints, cooperation, democracy, design, dialog, digital democracy, open government, participation, social media
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by Brian on 09-19-2010
We had an interesting exchange on Twitter the other day, about the lack of attention given by the media to lesser-known election candidates. Partially aside, it was the kind of thing I’ve been hoping to see for a while — a lively backchannel discussion about how local politics news is covered — and I hope [...]
Tagged as: blogging, conversation, elections, ideas, journalism, leadership, linking, politics, reporting, social media, twitter
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I love that it’s constantly changing. For now. It’s still pretty unpredictable, like the midst of a great big game — like the kind of games that Calvin & Hobbes played. It isn’t just the outcomes that change; our boundaries and rules keep changing too, without much notice. And we can change them (or at least [...]
Tagged as: authority, expertise, information, internet, knowledge, learning, lifestreaming, medium theory, social media, technology, twitter
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How It Happened Last night a group of us got together to discuss ChangeCamp London and different opportunities for fostering a more collaborative & open culture in London. It was a great meeting and we’ll see some good things coming together in the near future. With that still fresh in my mind, I noticed a [...]
Tagged as: collaboration, cycling, open, open data, open government, open source, social media, technology
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This post touches on social media engagement but it’s more generally a demonstration of the process of conceptualization itself. The discipline of imagining and developing these kinds of concepts is the deliverable I’ve been developing for the past few years and converting into the Open Conceptual enterprise model. Social media just happens to be one of the [...]
Tagged as: concept development, conceptualizations, curation, design thinking, engagement, social media, socialgraphics
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If you’re in London Ontario this Saturday afternoon come to the Central Library for the Indie Media Fair. I’ll be doing a workshop at 3 pm on the convergence of social and independent media. I didn’t come up with the theme but it certainly resonates with me. I went to the fair last year and [...]
Tagged as: culture, groups, indie media, networked publics, networks, social media, society
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Today I was trying to answer this question in a group discussion at AgendaCamp. Most of the time we talked about reasons to not stay in London. Personally, I moved back to London in 2000 after finishing school to regroup before figuring out what to do with my life… And I stayed in London because [...]
Tagged as: cities, citizen engagement, culture, demographics, generations, marketing, openness, signaling, social media, strategy, youth culture
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I enthusiastically support Stephen Harper’s decision to prorogue parliament… Here’s why. Proponents of more open, participatory, and directly accountable government have just been handed the best opportunity we could ask for. It’s a turning point in the narrative of centralized power that began with Jean Chrétien’s run in the 90s and has built up ever since. [...]
Tagged as: activism, canada, citizen engagement, facebook, government, open, parliament, politics, prorogation, public sphere, slacktivism, social media, stephen harper
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by Brian on 12-27-2009
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The premise of this series is to work out a new way of looking at our changing world» Part of the reason we’ve had so much difficulty making sense of the complex events of the past decade is that our ways of thinking — specifically, the metaphors, analogies, and images we resort to — have [...]
Tagged as: bias, epistemology, heuristics, learning, meta factors, metaphors, metaphysics, networks, object bias, philosophy, psychology, relevance, social media, will to relevance
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