Some thoughts on Social Shopping and Click Consumerism
If you can’t see the video, click here. You can see the video on YouTube. At the moment we’re having a lot of discussions on the Like Minds LinkedIn group, and one of these discussions recently was about Facebook’s new Social Plugins and how people felt this created a new level of trust and social [...]
Facebook’s Cohesive Web and Postmodern Epistemology
If you can’t see the video, click here. In this video (filmed by Andrew Davies, and full of The Office jokes), I stumble through attempting to explain the idea that Facebook’s new Social Plugins are a powerful step for our post modern epistemology — in other words, the way that we get information.
4 Flaws To Learn From Eurostar
So there’s lots of buzz right now about Eurostar’s mass travel delays following a train failure mid-Channel Tunnel, and the subsequent issues surrounding the handling of their Social Media presence by self-called ‘Conversation Agency’ We Are Social. I am not intending to repeat much of what’s already been said, nor lay out the background of [...]
Rage Against The Machine: The Case Study In Spreadability vs Reach
In case you didn’t know, the UK is experiencing, right now, one of the greatest Social Media case studies ever. The headline and subtext from the BBC is this: “Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts: Rock band Rage Against the Machine have won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas [...]
Cast Your Bread On The Social Media Waters
“Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.” That’s from the Bible, believe it or not. A seemingly contradictory statement, I have indeed found on many occasions that when I have put something ‘out there’, it has unexpectedly come back to me. Today I want to look at social [...]
Much Ado About Something
Yesterday, Facebook bought FriendFeed. To the Digitalls, this is a thing of hot debate and plentiful discussion. But to the Digicools and Digitools, they will have read to this point and still understand nothing I’ve said because they have no idea what FriendFeed is, nor know why it even matters that Facebook has acquired them. But [...]









