Twitter Lists + personal context = The future of search

In which I describe how Twitter Lists could supply us all with the power of context.
Twitter have just announced that you will be able to organise individual Twitterers into Twitter Lists.

This makes official the kind of organisation users have be doing with client applications such as TweetDeck – the kind of application anyone who [...]

‘As live’ comments while streaming

In which I suggest that timestamps of live comments during TV shows could be used to replay them when you catch up with a live event
A few days ago I started to be wary reading blog posts and tweets. I’ve been following the modern version of Battlestar Galactica. I may have not seen every episode, [...]

Digital Village Halls?

In which I provide some feedback to the UK government on their Digital Britain report: a place to build and democratise access to the internet.
From ‘two birds with one stone’ part of my brain, I’ve come up with an idea for the government that will head off complaints that Post Offices are being closed all [...]

#ukeditors getting together

After Larry Jordan’s London show a few punters stayed at the bar. We wondered whether some of the attendees there might want to stay in touch. We could support each other using similar Q&A sessions as we had today. Digitally, as well as meeting up in pubs and bars. If you’re interested follow me on [...]

Social media advertising: Trust the copy writer

In which I use the social media element of a UK advertising campaign to demonstrate how clients and agencies will need to learn how to trust unsupervised copyrighters with their brands.
If you’re interested in the future of advertising, maybe you should follow Aleksandr Orlov on Twitter or Facebook.
To anyone who’s ever been in interminable edits [...]

NAB and me

In which I say why I can’t make NAB, but pass on a code ‘worth $150′ that their PR agency sent me.
Over the years I’ve watched the stories coming out of the NAB Show, and heard tales from those who visit. Sometimes I daydream about visiting – especially if I’m going to be in the [...]

Create an iPhone version of your blog

Before the iPhone 3G phone came out in July, people created web applications and website designed for the iPhone. It’s still possible.
In fact, if you have a blog, you can use use VenueM.com to generate a version of your blog designed to be easier to read on an iPhone or Android-powered phone.
All you need [...]

I met two people at a party…

…after a while the conversation ran a little dry, so I asked them what they did for a living.
The first one said “I’m a problem solver.” I understood, but didn’t know what kind of problems they fixed. “I work with a group of people who wait for calls for help of various kinds. We’re ready [...]

How to beat Google

You beat Google by coming up with a method for organising the world’s information that is better than the way Google does it.
They find things for you by using an equation to guess whether a specific page is a good source of information on a subject. They look at the words on the page, the [...]

Overlay your content on anything

Matt Davis suggested…
An open source subtitle plugin that allows in-sync tweet-style text on ANY non-text media.
Of course I can’t just link to this idea, I’m supposed to add value…

Back in the sixties writers Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell were first known for the prank when they defaced books from their local public library.
In the [...]