technology archive
Highlights from this category
- Ten WordPress plugins to make your blog shine (2013 version) 4 Feb
- Councillor Camp: 10 questions to see if your council gets digital 12 Jan
- 10 top tools for getting the most out of Twitter 13 Jun
- Why you should feed the trolls 17 Oct
- Have you been fooled by the social media hype? 19 Nov
- My first five emails on Gmail 13 Oct
- Britain's first cybercafe – and thoughts on what makes for great innovation 7 Sep
- Why do you walk on the wrong side of the corridor in Tube stations? 19 Aug
- The future of newspapers as it looked in 1994 4 Aug
Attenzi: a social business story
There is no shortage of case studies about social business successes. Many however rely on a brilliantly innovative idea, an amazing person or a big budget. If you’re pretty good, with decent ideas and a firm that has a bit of money, then such case studies are often aspirational without being that practical. It’s a [...]
The big question about Ed Miliband
All hail the big data analysis that is Google's autocomplete function when asked about Ed Miliband.
This is not how to keep your passwords safe
Found this gem from The Ellen Show via Graham Cluley: Mind you, judging by one of the comments on the video, knowledge about sensible password safety is in short supply:
Social media, protests and lessons from the Arab Spring
How does social media help anti-government protesters? How does it help the governments resisting them? I was part of a discussion on this topic on the BBC’s Daily Politics earlier this week: For more on this question, see my magazine article from last year The Arab Spring, social media and lessons for future revolutionaries: “The [...]
Tribal… or local? Twitter followers stick to MPs of one party
Demos has an interesting looking report coming out tomorrow about the social media following of Britain’s three main political parties: We examine the social media support of the main three parties, and consider the extent to which Facebook and Twitter affiliation might replace the formal party membership model. We’ve number-crunched ‘Followers’ and ‘Likes’, and the [...]
A morbid but very useful new service from Google
Google’s Public Policy Blog has the news: Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. So today, we’re launching a new feature that makes it easy to tell Google what you want done [...]
A fascinating study of spreadsheets and how they go wrong
Via Charles Arthur: An overview of my PhD research from Felienne Hermans
Its brilliance is its simplicity
Take famous film scenes which feature people holding, pointing, gesticulating and threatening with guns. Replace the guns with a thumbs up. And you have the genius that is Thumbs and Ammo.
