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Technology

An idea for a little Facebook mashup for travellers

26.10.2011 0 comments

For the first time in ages, Facebook has me hooked on a new feature – the ‘Cover’ image (the large image at the top) in the new profile timeline. If you don’t know what I am on about, see this and this for how to enable it. OK, this ‘Cover’ […]

EU Politics, Technology

If 2011 were to be Denmark’s Facebook election, the left would clean up

31.08.2011 8 comments

I know that Facebook numbers are not everything. It’s about change in the real world, activism etc. But if at least clicking a ‘Like’ button on Facebook is some sort of symbol of political engagement, then this is how the Danish political parties stack up before the election due on […]

Technology

How to follow a breaking news event on social media

23.08.2011 1 comment

For good or bad we’ve had a glut of gripping stories this summer, those sit-glued-to-the-TV moments where everyone wants to know what’s going on. For me the Oslo / Utøya attacks, the London riots, and the rebel advance on Tripoli have been three such events. Only now there is a […]

Technology, UK Politics

How good is Facebook if you want to organise a riot?

22.08.2011 0 comments

I’ve organised my fair share of Facebook campaigns over the years – some with tremendous success and others that went nowhere. I’ve also spoken to people who have run major Facebook activities in the past, people like Anton Abele whose Stop Street Violence campaign became front page news in Sweden. […]

Technology

The requirements for a personal blog, 2011 style

10.07.2011 6 comments

Back in the autumn of last year I did a partial redesign of this blog. Since then the blog has sprouted all kinds of buttons, and looks a bit of a mess. In the meantime WordPress has evolved to version 3.2 and offers a whole bunch of new features. So […]

Technology

Social networks – who to add as a friend / follower / person in my circle

06.07.2011 1 comment

Others will post more profound observations about Google+, but for me it has provoked one fundamental question: what are my rules for adding friends, followers, people into circles etc. on the different social networks I use? Oddly, thinking about this has actually led to a rationalisation of my Facebook use […]

EU Politics, Technology

How MEPs should organise their web comms and social networking

21.05.2011 7 comments

I was a speaker yesterday at the Nordic-Baltic Youth Forum 2011 in Narva, Estonia. The slides from my presentation are here, but this post is about an issue that was on my mind all day – how Members of the European Parliament should organise their web presence. The 3 MEPs at […]

Technology

techPresident | Don’t step on the grass in Facebook’s walled garden: lessons from the UK

02.05.2011 0 comments

“While Wills and Kate paraded along The Mall on Friday, a smaller story was developing online – reports that Facebook had purged more than 50 accounts of left wing and student groups emerged, at the same time as police were preemptively arresting eccentric anti-royal protestors.” Read the full piece at […]

Technology

Why it’s not yet time to capitulate to Facebook

26.04.2011 3 comments

Joe Litobarski wrote a post earlier today entitled “Blogs are Dead… Long Live Facebook!” Like a lot of Joe’s stuff it’s a thoughtful case, but, ultimately – in my view – wrong. Far from becoming redundant, blogs are simply changing – blogging and the mainstream media are merging (more from […]

Technology

Twitter isn’t egalitarian. Tell me something new.

29.03.2011 0 comments

There’s a story on The Telegraph website today entitled Twitter ‘elite’ send most tweets. That’s not quite a fair representation of the story itself – the most important parts of the story are these: Fifty per cent of all tweets read and shared on Twitter are generated by only 20,000 ‘elite’ […]