Twitter is, apparently, a tool that allows lots of no-marks to tell everybody about what they’re having for their breakfast.
In other news, here’s Euan Semple’s views on the price of pomposity.
Posts on ‘June 23rd, 2009’
The price of pomposity
Lurkers, intermittent contributors and heavy contributors
Further to the earlier post about active citizenship, during a conversation with my mate Nick Buckley of Gfk NOP, he reminded me of Jakob Neilsen’s ‘90-9-1′ pyramid. I’ve not looked at this for a while now but it makes the point, doesn’t it?
There are only a few people that really warrant the title ‘web guru’ [...]
Celeb visualisations: Calling @stephenfry to explain voting systems
The US-based Fair Vote site makes the very valid point that some attempt at civic education needs to be done in advance of any proposals for electoral reform. It particularly concerns the actor Richard Dreyfuss who makes one or two pithy points on the subject:
“Don’t call it ‘civics’ because ‘civics’ is easily the most boring [...]
Community sites and active citizenship – a #LocalGovCamp roundup
LocalGovCamp roundup
Dave Briggs surpassed himself on Saturday convening a terrific event in Birmingham. I’m hoping to pick up a number of issues that came up in different posts here, but I’d like to start with the session that I helped lead on. I don’t want to detail or argue any of the issues that came [...]
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