Digital Wake
Digital Wake: a new experiment
Having recently got heavily into podcasts, it seemed a good time to give it a crack with @DannyWhatmough [http://twitter.com/dannywhatmough/]. Thoughts and feedback always welcome.
Public Relations
PR for PR
Post [https://www.facebook.com/stephen.waddington/posts/10153350969636982] by Stephen Waddington [https://www.facebook.com/stephen.waddington].Have been meaning to write up similar thoughts about the Guardianâs âanon PRâ feature. Was invited to write one and explained that I think anyone who would contribute is rather missing
journalism
The journo who replied to every PR email missed the most important point
I love the idea. Obviously. But I think thereâs a missed opportunity in the execution. Let me start at the beginning. The problem In a world where PRs outnumber journalists so hugely, the biggest obstacle to improving our industry today is the broken feedback loop. If every journo could
Likes labours lost: You get the Facebook you deserve
Recently, Wired reporter Mat Honan conducted an experiment [http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/] to see what happens if you Like every Page that appears in your Facebook feed. The result was his Friendsâ stories being crowded out by updates from noisy brands. No great surprises there. But hereâ
Technology
Google Authorship is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of search
Letâs play Devilâs Advocate a minute. Google has said it will âstop showing authorship in search results.â [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8]. It has not said that it will stop using what it has learned about authorship to impact rankings. Over the past few
I'm generally quite relaxed about privacy but this whole presentation is great
Iâm generally quite relaxed about privacy but this whole presentation is great [http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm]: > It should be illegal to collect and permanently store most kinds of behavioral data. In the United States, they warn us the world will end if someone tries to regulate the
A good read on the uncomfortable benefits of buying followers
A good read on the uncomfortable benefits of buying followers [https://medium.com/i-data/fake-friends-with-real-benefits-eec8c4693bd3]: > Even more interesting, at least to me, was what my fake followers did for me. My Klout score almost instantly shot up. I was not impressed by that until I realized that Microsoftâs
Pebble
Downstream: Living with Pebble
A few thoughts, in no particular order. * Forget âsmartwatchâ, Pebble is better described as a HUD on your wrist. You can ignore your phone, not worry about missing anything, not have to keep flicking the screen on in case youâve got notifications. You can just get on with things
The diversity of life experience fuelling development of games today is great
The diversity of life experience fuelling development of games today is great [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-03-28-who-is-dayz-creator-dean-hall]: From Who is DayZ creator Dean Hall? [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-03-28-who-is-dayz-creator-dean-hall]: > Survival had been drummed into him for months as part of Singaporean army training. Heâd survived for
Twitter Cards are becoming the smallest unit of 'web'
My thoughts on Econsultancy: > Furthermore, because Twitter Cards can be based on existing metadata of websites, they can be simply generated at scale. For example, Amazon can immediately translate any product listing into an accompanying Card. At that stage, whatâs to stop you making a page of the
Technology
Listen up Apple: build a smart EarPod or someone else will (Wired UK)
By me at Wired: > The idea would take a key element of Appleâs heritage and sidestep the assumption that a wearable device has to rely on your sense of sight or touch. Apple has an opportunity to recall one of the strongest motifs of its iPod days and
A thought on"What the Fox Knows"
A thought onâWhat the Fox Knowsâ [http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-fox-knows/]: > All of this takes time. Thatâs why weâve elected to sacrifice something else as opposed to accuracy or accessibility. The sacrifice is speed â weâre rarely going to be the first organization to break news