A personal aside… An old mate of mine has entered a radio show competition to get his song voted top of the World Cup songs. It’s easily the best entry, but to invoke the spirit of collaboration that is emblematic of the Web, I’d like you to go and vote for it! Please go to Talksport.net, scroll down, look on the left for “Koopa (Stand Up 4 England)” and click
I went to Blogging For business yesterday. The event itself was well programmed, well thought out and cleverly promoted both by blogs and by the stirling efforts of organiser Matt Yeomans and Bernhard Warner (and conference firm Retail Events). If there was any glitch it was often with sections of the audience. Not that they were bad or stupid. More that they seemed to be coming to ‘the conversation’ about
Canicrash.org is a new wiki site set up so that ‘entrpereneur bloggers’ visiting abroad can hook up with other bloggers to stay on a sofa. Quoting: “Can I crash?” is a project of Toothless Tiger initiated by Henriette Weber Andersen – who basically is a young female who is tired of busting her entrepreneurial budget when there is things (dinners, conferences, vacations) in other countries (or cities) she wants to
Does the UK’s creative sector actually know how to make sense of the opportunities the Internet provides? I asked myself this question while chairing a panel about the opportunities for SMEs in the brave new world of “Web 2.0” last night. It was an event by Cass Creatives and InSync. Cass Creatives is a joint initiative from Cass Business School’s Department of Management working with iKnowHow, while InSync is a
I’m developing an event for New Media Knowledge on the new area of IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) on 25th May. I’ll be looking for speakers, participants, delegates and sponsors, so get in touch if you fall into any of those categories.
This week Mbites.com hosted its latest “Bitecast”, featuring two guests: Alfie Dennen (left), co-founder of Moblog UK and Chris Skinner (right), co-founder of Podcast User Magazine. Download the MP3 file here (approx 19MB, 20 minutes long) or subscribe to the podcast feed and download it automatically into your favourite podcasting software and/or mobile media player device. The second in our regular series of podcasts (chaired by journalist Mike Butcher) looked
mbites has a new project. My wife had a baby boy on Friday March 3rd (yay!), so our ‘new project’ will be taking up a little time this week. Expect only light posting on this blog this week… Update: A photo from my cameraphone (a Treo 650).
I find it interesting that a site started by a 16 year old student to lobby in favour of science and animal testing is unavailable today. But the 16 year old’s original blog is still up, where you can comment and contribute to the debate. Meanwhile the anti-vivisectionist site for Speak doesn’t allow people to comment on their news stories. So which side is more open to debate do you
Can we get a Podbop for the Uk please? Anyone out there interested?
How about this? A Web 2.0 Innovation map: “The Web 2.0 Innovation Map grew out of an interest in how Web 2.0 development is distributed geographically. Using the lists of Web 2.0 applications from various sources (see listings) and a bit of elbow grease to locate addresses, the Innovation Map was born. The locations listed here have come either from a WHOIS lookup or the contact information from the web