Category Archive for 'social media'

BBCRadio4: Analysis/clever.com - Stephen Fry is a hashtag, or something #goodradioclub

Mar 12th, 2009

Tara Brabazon is a lecturer at University of Brighton and has some interesting views on internet tools - she bans her first year students from using (citing, surely??) Google and Wikipedia. 
Also, @stephenfry is described as ’sharp as a hashtag’. 
Find its presenter @kenanmalik on Twitter. 
Worth a ‘Listen Again’. 
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Analysis | clever.com.

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Clay Shirky in today’s Observer - his thoughts on algorithms

Feb 15th, 2009

I spoke to Clay Shirky recently for a piece on Journalism.co.uk. His comments provoked a few questions about web democracy, and what exactly he had meant when using the Change.gov illustration. One of his answers in today’s Observer ‘This Much I Know’ feature looks at that example again.
“Algorithms dont do a good job of detecting [...]

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Twitter @theBaftas; #salad gets a mention

Feb 8th, 2009

I was just settling down with my tea in front of the Baftas, when I realised it could be quite fun (fast descending into undeniable geekdom) to follow with Twitter (via @jtownend). Turns out not many any bona fide film critics are on Twitter: maybe the London Evening Standard’s @nickcurtis put them off (back story [...]

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Twitter politics - why on earth does it matter?

Oct 24th, 2008

People use Twitter in very different ways and does it really matter? Charles Arthur discusses Twitterquette and how he’s binned many of the people he’s following. Use it for links and relevant information people, seems to be his message. Comments below don’t agree. I don’t think it really matters: use it in a way that [...]

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