Know your SOPA rights
10th January 2012

Last night I attended a meeting of a speakers' group. We meet regularly to practise our public speaking skills and receive feedback from one another in an effort to improve. The main topic of discussion last night, a topic I presented to the group, was a recent co-ed by Vinton Cerf on whether internet access is a human right.

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Credit rating - time to rearrange the deckchairs?
9th January 2012

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FT, NYT hike print prices to push readers online
9th January 2012

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Could 2012 be an "appy" new year?
8th January 2012

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Twitter list management
8th January 2012

If you are running a social media presence, or using social media as research tools, then there a couple of things worth noting in Hunter Walk's blog about how we tend to inevitably add more noise to our social media than we need to. Particularly pertinent is the idea that following back anybody who follows you on Twitter is the "polite" and correct thing to do. It seems rude not to. But as humans ourselves there is a limit to the number of information sources we can manage.

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If you have to cut loose...
6th January 2012

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More mobile than ever
6th January 2012

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Investigating the uses for (and usefulness of) Google+
4th January 2012

After Google Buzz and Google Wave, most people consider Google+ to be the company's third attempt to "do" social software. They've clearly got a large user base for search and Gmail, which they hope to convert to using the service. 2012 is probably the make or break year for Google+ having, it seems, performed better than many analysts expected in 2011.

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Big Data - gizmos don't cut it
3rd January 2012

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"Frictionless sharing" - exploring the changes to Facebook
3rd January 2012

End users of Facebook may well be divided in their opinion of the introduction of frictionless sharing, but Martin Belam’s article will forewarn you about its effect on metadata, audit trails and content publishing, so that you can be forearmed.

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