Thursday is the weekend Yesterday was a Thursday but I decided to declare it a weekend day and take a day off since it the weather looked very promising. We went for a pleasant canalside walk, explored Islington’s Chapel Market, visited the canal museum and had a smashing lunch at the Charles Lamb inn. Bastille […]
Four more tips for getting to grips with FriendFeed In this third video of the series I show four simple techniques for delving further into the productive use of Friendfeed as a social media tool. So this being a Friday, you’re now all set for an exciting weekend experimenting and exploring the fast growing conversations […]
In this second screencast video about Friendfeed, I talk about the way Friendfeed uses social object theory to add stickiness to imported feeds. There’s also a discussion of Friendfeed rooms, and a reply to Linda Hartley‘s question about the first video in this series: Friendfeed for Microblogging Warning: This screencast is hosted on Google video […]
This is the fourth post in a series of Action Research posts, following on from 1) 2008/04/27 First Person Action Research 2) 2008/04/29 Keeping an Action Log for 1st Person Research (also 11 comments on the above link) 3) 2008/05/12 Action Log Examples Reflecting on the process of Action Logging Having meticulously kept up my […]
Friendfeed is more than just a clever lifestream aggregator for all your other applications, it’s also a micro blogging platform in its own right. Here’s a screencast video I made to show how. In the next screencast video of this series, I’ll show how Friendfeed microblog entries can be social objects, and the use of […]
If you’ve ever been on Paris breaks by eurostar then you’ll be familiar with the Gare du Nord mainline railway station because that’s where you first arrive in central Paris and it’s where you have to get back to in plenty of time for the train home. You’ll have waited in line there to be ticked checked and […]
This is the third in a series of articles exploring the Action Log concept for 1st person research. The first article began to explain the practice of first person action research, and the second introduced the idea of keeping an Action Log In the comments, Shelley asked for a real example of an Action Log […]
Theatre breaks in London for those who can get away midweek For theatre lovers and those who enjoy short theatre breaks in London there are some seriously amazing bargains to be had in the New Year, summer and autumn seasons for people like myself who are not tied to regular 9 to 5 weekday working […]
Theatre breaks in London for those who can get away midweek For theatre lovers and those who enjoy short theatre breaks in London there are some seriously amazing bargains to be had in the New Year and also this summer for people like myself who are not tied to regular 9 to 5 weekday working […]
Thanks to Frankie for first noticing it and Shirlyearly for tracking the page down for me in Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations Here Comes Everybody Please do not inform children of the explosions This is the picture referred to in the book, and it came in for a lot […]