Year: 2009

Social Media is a billion small stories

Social Media Stories

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Seth Goldstein’s draft presentation on social media stories draws this very simple explanation of the distinction between conventional media and social media:

Conventional media wisdom is to tell a great big story to as many people as possible. Social Media is about enabling lots of little stories to be created by lots of different people at the same time.

It’s an incredibly useful way to help comms teams and the like understand why their usual instincts may not apply.

Stuff I've seen April 18th through April 21st

These are my links for April 18th through April 21st:

  • Better ways to share information digitally « Observations – The Observatory’s Population & Society Group is planning a seminar in the summer to investigate and discuss how research organisations in the West Midlands can get better at sharing information digitally. Do you have any thoughts on this?
  • Google News Timeline – Google News Timeline supports lots of different types of queries that you can add by clicking on a checkbox below.
  • Birmingham City Council Press Releases – An independent site that purely exists to allow a space for commenting on Birmingham City Council Press Releases.
  • World Bank API – Welcome to the World Bank Developer Network! – The World Bank's first API offers 114 indicators from key data sources and 12,000 development photos (see all sources). We are releasing this API because we believe this information can be mapped, visualized and mashed up in an unlimited number of ways that will help develop a better understanding of trends and patterns around key development issues.
  • The Conservative Party | News | The Blue Blog | Making Government data work for you – "MySociety are campaigning for Parliamentary bills to be published in an internet-friendly format, so the public could be kept up-to-date with their progress through Parliament. Thankfully, David Cameron agrees – it’s a great idea, and one that could lead to a UK version of OpenCongress (or, better still, our version of YourOwnDemocracy – an ambitious US project still in its early stages) becoming reality."

It's a messy time for Intellectual property, but Tesco should know where it stands.

Is this evidence of Tesco using Rosie Cosies IP? Original Image Rosie Cosie and Tesco
Is this evidence of Tesco using Rosie Cosie's IP? Original Image Rosie Cosie and Tesco

A mum who runs her own knitting business is claiming that Tesco has started to sell one of her designs without acknowledging her intellectual property rights:

“I have not supplied the design or pattern to them and I did not give my consent for my design to be used but it seems that doesn’t count when it comes to big business, they just take what they want regardless of the intellectual property rights of individuals.”

I reckon we are all confused about IP at the moment but any business which fights to protect it’s own IP has no place abusing others’.

Perhaps it’s time for Julie Williams to start a legal fundraiser using a tip jar under the title “Every Little Helps” ?