Social Media and the mob
One of my favourite films is 'The Fisher King')- one of the most haunting scenes in it is where Radio 'Shock Jock' Jack Lucas repeats the words 'Forgive me' from a TV script he is hoping to star in, w…
Tagged: blogs-and-blogging
A quick guide to blog spam...
I'll soon be hitting a landmark on Joe's jottings - 10,000 spam posts caught by the Akismet spam trapping plug-in for Wordpress. Not at all bad going - I would advise anyone who runs a Wordpress Blog…
Facebook user hypocrisy or common sense?
I came across this article in my Twitstream today about how young professionals are changing their name and doing other things to camoflage their presence on Facebook and other social networking sites…
Blogger or marketer - your choice.
I encounteredthis article in my Twitter feed today, and to be honest it bought a lump to my throat. No, not that good sort of lump - the sort that makes you want to run for the bathroom. Let me start…
Keep your tank full!
Some years ago when I was engaged (in a small way) in the movie industry I read a rather interesting book of advice to low budget (or zero budget) film makers. One of the most useful things I read w…
Web 2.0 - User Generated Content or garbage?
Some months ago, an Internet Form that I belonged to was taken offline after an internal dispute....and it never came back. The upshot of it was that the content of the forum was no longer available …
Facebook friends limited to 150 by the brain?
As anyone who's ever heard me rant about the 'numbers game' side of networking - especially on sites such as Ecademy, Linked in or Facebook - will testify, I'm a great believer in quality rather than …
Online Exhibitionists affect privacy for us all...
I came up with the title for this piece after reading this article on the BBC Website about people who the authors of a paper called 'online exhibitionists. The idea is that much privacy legislation …
Web 2.0 Jumps the Shark
There is a wonderful phrase in film and TV script writing -'to jump the shark'. It's that point in the history of a TV series where the scripts veer off in to the surreal or when characters suddenly …
Too soon for Social Media Experts?
The Greeks had the Oracle at Delphi; we have consultants. A recent comment on Twitter suggested that the Apocalypse would be heralded by everyone on Twitter being a 'Social Media Expert' - sometimes t…