I’m organising a panel discussion provisionally titled “The Dark Side Of Social Media”. This is going to be about how Social Media (MySpace, YouTube etc etc) has a ‘bad’ side, and it is not quite the new media nirvana some make it out to be. The Kathy Sierra incident is just once recent, extreme example. For instance consider these issues surrounding social media which remain unresolved: • Child safety remains
Being a journo, for some reason people seem to think I know about content. This means that increasingly I get asked to help the odd organisation out with ideas, content and speakers for events. I don’t do this ALL the time, but once in a while I am tempted to help out, such as with NMK Forum in July. So here are a couple of other events I am programming
Today I’m off to cover CeBit in Hannover, Germany, (the big electronics trade show) for a few days.
I’m currently doing some blogging for the New Statesman New Media Awards web site. Come on over if you are interested in entering the awards this year.
The University of Westminster’s New Media Knowledge (NMK) programme is taking applications from people who would like to speak or appear on a panel at its annual new media conference in June this year. I am a journalist helping to produce the content for this year’s event, and am the first point of contact for anyone wanting to appear on stage at the event (though NMK has final say). I’m
I’m thinking about what next to do with this blog. What direction to take it in. What platform to use (currently Drupal). Should I shut up/shut down? Make it more personal or make it more focused? If you have any thoughts on the matter post them below or email me. Thanks!
You know what? It’s time to declare peace in the ongoing TechCrunch UK / TechCrunch US / Le Web 3 debacle. I will be making no further comment on this blog, or anyone else’s blog, about the matter. We’ve all, including me, said enough. It’s time to disarm and go home, wherever home is. Suffice it to say that I think in a parallel universe things might have happened differently.
I forgot to mention. I got onto BBC World’s “Click” show this week, in an interview about Second Life. The video is here. (Although the brand name they put against my name is now incorrect).
Today we launch Vecosys, a new blog to track UK, Irish and, moving outwards, European web 2.0 and mobile 2.0 startups. Today also happens to be my birthday. (We still need to do some more design on it, but it’s getting there)
PLEASE NOTE: Before you read the below post, here is the context: It was written after a very difficult few days following the collapse of the TechCrunch UK franchise in December 2006 due to the falling out of franchisee Sam Sethi, who I was working with, and TechCrunch owner Mike Arrington. It was also a time when my wife was ill in hospital. The wider context is this: I started