Twitter is a great service. Simple to set up. Easy to use. It’s based on SMS messaging, which is dead simple. But it’s a printing press for bores who tell you they are eating lunch. That’s the bad news. The good news is that it’s one of the first SMS systems with an API which creative programmers can put to good use. Thus, we have BBC Tech updates, Tube line
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
“The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams…” is a new series of films by Adam Curtis (“The Power of Nightmares”, “Century of the Self”) that tells the story of the rise of today’s narrow idea of freedom. It shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today’s idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during
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
So I got my Virgin Media customer pack today. They must be sending it to everyone who has ever touched Virgin (I had a Virgin mobile number once, plus I was on Telewest at one time). Clearly they are going for the whole “we’ll simplify TV, broadband, phone and mobile for you” pitch. There is also a response mechanic: If you go to Knowfirst.co.uk you’ll obviously have read their printed
Here’s quite a sophisticated (well, compared to 90% of it) bit of spam I got today. Not only does it leech off the tragedy of the London 7/7 bombings, but it also comes from a vaguely plausible email address. Plus it even has the usual legal disclaimer from a law firm. These spammers are really getting into spear phishing (targeted spam): <snip> From: “Anthony Singer-Singer”<anthonysingers@aol.co.uk> Subject: Information For Your Attention.