Author Archive for del.icio.us
Published on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 .
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Francis Ingham — DG of the PRCA — weighs in on the story in the comments section of this post.
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paidContent:UK has a nice straightforward article on the NLA's mindless attempt to charge for free content.
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OMFG ROFL — The Newspaper Licensing Agency wants to charge us for sending URLs to clients (see the linked PDF — <a href="http://www.nla.co.uk/pdf/Guide%20to%20Electronic%20Distribution%20April%202009b.pdf">A Guide to Electronic Distribution</a>.) Can we take this seriously?
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J&J <a href="http://jnjbtw.com/2009/05/calling-mommy-vloggers/">called upon Mommy vloggers</a> to submit videos on topics "relevant to them" — a nice idea, but one, as you'll see, that generated little interest either in the way of video submissions (8 videos submitted after 6 months as at July 9, 2009) or views (fewer than 15K.) Needs more investment, or more thought.
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This looks like a best-practice example for pharma company blogging. There's little evidence for consumer interest: most of the inbound links seem to be talking about this as an example of "corporate blogs" and "marketing" rather than as a source of what we might broadly term "medical information." But there's some great evidence of <a href="http://www.postrank.com/feed/38238b9c95b44e75f747871bccf68c70">outreach and linkbait</a> — clearly this is a platform for activity on the broader web, rather than a simple content site
Published on Thursday, July 9, 2009 .
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A masterful Delicious/Pipes/Instapaper mashup by Daniel Catt — with clever use of Yahoo! Alerts (a service of which I was previously unaware, but which seems to outperform Google Alerts in significant ways.) Actually, I was just looking for a way to get around a URL Encode problem I was having with Pipes when I stumbled across this (Catt's "sloppy" solution works for me.) But now I want to implement this whole hack for myself.
Published on Thursday, June 4, 2009 .
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Neals Yard Remedies agreed to join a public online debate, then wimped out, leaving little more than a reputation disaster. Here the Guardian's Adam Vaughan (together with Max Clifford and Mark Borkowski) offers a critique.
Published on Thursday, May 21, 2009 .
Published on Thursday, April 23, 2009 .
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Here's a simple tool/hack that lets you use delicious as the storage facility for Feedshow.
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Tony Hirst has built a link presenter — essentially a tool that lets you present a series of web pages. What's neat is that it also lets people share the show on a conference call, wander off to follow a link, then re-sync themselves at the click of a button. Look forward to trying this out.
Published on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 .
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Cool! Evan O'Neil from the Carnegie Council's "Policy Innovations" has used one of my network diagrams to illustrate an article by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.) I even get a picture credit. That might account for the sudden spike of activity on that Flickr image around the time of publication… (I love Flickr Pro…)
Published on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 .
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Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML) helps users share explicit and implicit data about their activities, interests, tastes and preferences with each other and between web services. The promise? Increased "Personal Relevancy" and more interoperability between services. First heard about this from Ian Jindal, founder of InternetRetailing.net
Published on Thursday, April 9, 2009 .
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Here's a multi-platform GUI for SQLite. I'm using it to peek at the TweetDeck database.
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I've just started playing with TweetDeck, and already I know that I have to hack it to get it to do what I want. Partly this is because I've stayed with Twhirl so long (multiple accounts to manage, you see) that my reasons for moving are more – shall we say "complex" – than most, and I've got too many damn friends to organize. Shannon Whitley's SQLite script and instructions may just be the droid I'm looking for. Or indeed, for which I'm looking. Kenobi should never have ended on a preposition.
