Author: Nick Booth

22nd April 2009

Stuff I've seen April 21st and April 22nd

These are my links for April 21st through to April 22nd:

Coca-Cola say ‘Yes’ (probably) to trials this year : ColaLife – “Yes, we are planning to run trails of the ColaLife idea before the end of the year.” Is the response Simon Berry got from Coca Cola last night for his plan to use crates to coca cola to alwo trasnport essential medecines etc in Africa.
Obama’s People by Nadav Kander » The Opening Day… – People who campaigned for Obama in Illinois, Frank and Julie, who had come to Birmingham on work, found the exhibition by accident, and had their photo taken next to John Podesta who was once one of their students.

22nd April 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.

21st April 2009

The BPI's new website appears to be without RSS

I really can’t get my head around this. The BPI’s new website appears to have no rss feed. Does this symbolise why the BPI is struggling to understand what is happening to music, the web and business models?

Update:

Well it took Stef 2 minutes to sort the problem of rss from the site (why didn’t the BPI do this?): http://page2rss.com/page?url=www.bpi.co.uk/category/news-amp3b-press-release.aspx

21st April 2009

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."