After coming across too many people recently who asked why I don’t post to my blog more often, I have realised that “being too busy” wasn’t really a good enough excuse. In my defense I would like to quote the honourable Jimmy Guterman, a online journalist (and former Industry Standard staffer) who actually knows what he’s talking about: “Words written since May 2001 that have appeared on my weblog: 71,642.
I went to Internet world in Earls Court today. Put it this way. There were lots of servers and lots of vendors of content management software. (Someone should tell them about Open Source and blogging). But the real buzz was around the New Media Marketing Seminar Tent. Everyone seems to have realised they have no idea what to do, now they actually have the servers and the web site and
Nokia continues to want to take over the world. I am in Helsinki at one of their press conferences where no-one really answers questions. “What do you plan to do about Happy Slapping? Parental controls on the handsets?” I ask. The answer comes back that it’s “down to parents to exercise control”. Sure, but what happens when all those Nokia handsets get confiscated by schools, huh guys? For more from
That’s what the RFID tags will be asking shoppers innocently carrying around stuff in Seattle from this week.
One has to wonder if there will be a backlash against video mobiles if ‘happy slapping‘ carries on.
I’m chairing a roundtable discussion on blogging next week. Anyone can come, so long as they are a paid-for member of Netimperative.
Thing is, all we need is an advertising system (subject to competition), an e-commerce system (subject to competition) and some kind of loose financial arrangement (which doesn’t involve copyright). Outside of that, bloggers should be free to move around as the deals take them. That’s the point… Maybe Battelle gets this. Maybe not.
As usual, Polly Toynbee talks the most sense: “This is still Labour’s third great win with a majority that would have seemed handsome enough to previous Labour governments. When the votes are combined with the Lib Dems’ strongest showing since its alliance with the SDP in 1983, there is no major rightward shift. So that social democratic wind of change in 1997 was no temporary symptom of momentary Tory failure.
It looks like the landslides are over for Labour. Meantime, The blogs rattled on. The BBC one was pretty thin. The Guardian’s better. My favourites gadgets were on the BBC site, especially the swingometer – aiding ready reckoning on the swing as the numbers came in. Watching TV, The BBC had the better line-up of pundits I think, but Sky’s coverage was graphically intersting, if a bit over the top
This week I wrote a piece for the Financial Times about social software in the UK/Europe. Somewhere along the line (sub editing and the limitations of print) it was shortened, so at the risk of putting something unedited out there (yes, even in the age of blogging, some of us think peer editing is important), here’s the unedited version. I had a lot to say… : European unions forged online