Is the person and technology becoming one?
Learning to live with a pervasive internet
Twitter – part 3
Completing a series of three articles re twitter – why, what how? Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 – How does twitter fit in with web site, blogging, facebook, linkedin, other social networks? I see my website as my anchor on the internet. My website says I am who I am, sets out my stall, [...]
Thoughtful piece on social networking and facebook
Interesting piece from Fiona McCann in today’s Irish Times, ”on facebook“. Would agree fully that Facebook has changed (and devalued) meaning of friends. Much of what Fiona says rings true with me – as someone who spends a fair amount of time blogging, twittering and updating facebook. Her comments would also be well received by [...]
Interesting comment re journalists and the internet
In today’s Sunday Times another excellent article from Terry Prone – entitled: It’s in the media’s interest to support a probe into privacy. In the middle of the piece Terry Prone makes the following comment: ‘It must be said, however, that the openness of journalists to examine all sides of possible legislation is currently complicated by their [...]
Sustainability of web business
Challenges for the WWW industry
Irish politicians get web 2.0
Congratulations to Fianna Fail on their new website. Engaging with Joe Rospars (the web2.0 man behind Preisdent Obama’s campaign) was the right call. Fianna Fail, as the party in government, needs to use all tools at their disposal to get their message across – to persuade all of us to sign up for the tough medicine [...]
Copyright developments
The Irish Times reports on 29th January agreement being reached between Eircom and four records companies re illegal downloads of music – implementation of the ‘three strikes and you’re out’ approach by Eircom (and, presumably, other ISPs at a future date). Writing in the GigaOM blog, 31 January 2009, Janko Roettgers, under the heading ,’BitTorrent [...]
Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom
Today's Irish Times includes detailed reference to 'Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom' – book by Soumitra Dutta and Matthew Fraser of INSEAD. It's another piece calling Irish business to action in terms of availing of web 2.0 technology. Companies have lots of employees who are used to using Facebook, Twitter, etc in collaborating in their [...]
Using up your online ‘cred’
I think Microsoft have done a nice job in their upgrades/ fixes to Live. However I think they face major challenges in trying to establish significant presence as a 'social network' partner. My own experience to date has been that having an established presence with Linkedin, Facebook and Plaxo – people do not want to [...]