Amplified 2008

Monday, December 1st, 2008

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Image Courtesy of Phil Campbell"]     Image Courtesy of Benjamin Ellis   Last Thursday, I dragged my pre-man-flu self down to London to visit Nesta's headquarters for Amplified 08 - a non-conference to bring together creatives, practitioners, academics - or indeed anyone that was interesting in social media - who had taken part in previous events ...

Howard Rheingold at University of Leicester

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Jin (3rd Year Ph.D) and myself met with Howard Rheingold whilst he was in town on Saturday. Excuse the awful photograph of yours truely - it was an inspiring cup of tea indeed!

Managing Identities: Part 2 (Netvibes)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The smallworlds project aims to introduce emerging online research tools, such as Twitter and Delicious, at a grassroots level to early stage laboratory students at the University of Leicester. For many of the students that we met at the introductory sessions last week, this was their first encounter with these sites - and ...

University of Leicester and DeMontfort University Social Media Proposal.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Why write when I've already proposed it on Seesmic? I'm looking to hear from anybody who lives in Leicester (or the surrounding area) about this. The abundance of us who are coming out of the woodwork and grouping around these new, exciting social media applications shows how we can actually make ...

Twitter - the backlash!

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Just before we go galloping off, expressing our insane desire for twitter and it's many transferable functions - I've got a few criticisms that I have stolen from a few friends (who have recently slagged me off for my "excessive" tweeting - spoilsports!) Apparently twitter is annoying(!) - especially when synced ...