Twitter’s reliability recently has been… well… awful. During the introductions to the opening day of Toronto’s Mesh Conference yesterday, I suddenly thought: “What happens if Twitter goes down (again) today?” On a whim, I decided to give live-blogging tool Cover It Live a try.
I worry about people launching headlong into ill-advised, poorly thought-out initiatives, getting burned and not coming back for more, just because it’s the ‘in’ thing to do.
February 16, 2008 – 2:22 pm
The International Olympic Committee has ruled that athletes at the Beijing Olympics will be allowed to write about their experiences during the games.
They’re referring specifically to blogs. If you’re not familiar with blogs, in this context they’re essentially journals that are available on the web.
According to the BBC, this is the first time the [...]
February 6, 2008 – 10:26 pm
My thoughts on Mitch Joel’s take on the Ford Mustang and Scrabulous controversies recently. Generally spot-on in my view.
Note: recorded half-way through a 22km run, so (a) the audio is bad and (b) I’m out of breath.
January 21, 2008 – 12:08 am
In the last little while I’ve seen a few worrying slip-ups in the wonderful world of the blogosphere.
First up, on December 30, 2007 the Washington Post reported that the Recording Industry Association of America sued a man for copying his own CDs onto his computer. With a story like that, it’s not surprising that a [...]
December 24, 2007 – 1:35 pm
In the last few days, a couple of people twittered about clearing out their RSS feed subscriptions.
This got me thinking: there’s a fairly well-known set of major blogs out there. Most people in this space know about Jeremiah, Shel, Todd, Neville, Shel II, Scoble, Steve Rubel, Mitch et al, but what are the undiscovered gems?
What [...]
December 9, 2007 – 11:59 pm
Utterz and Seesmic are the hot new thing right now.
While they’re both still in testing (Utterz is in beta and Seesmic is in alpha), a large number of social media types are using them regularly.
These tools are very cool. Mobile looks to be the next big thing for the web, and these guys are [...]
November 12, 2007 – 10:10 pm
Communications training courses on traditional strategies and tactics just don’t cut it any more. The ever-increasing rate of change on the Internet, and its emerging impact on media consumption, means organizations need to seriously consider offering social media training to their employees.
This environment, along with a few well-documented faux-pas by PR practitioners, has had me [...]
November 6, 2007 – 11:12 pm
A giant hat tip to Joseph Thornley for organizing another Third Tuesday Toronto event tomorrow night.
This promises to be a real treat. As Joseph puts it:
Giovanni is a leading pr blogger, a principal in The Conversation Group social media consultancy and a Research Fellow and Advisory Board member of the Society for New Communications Research. [...]
