Information as art? It can’t get more beautiful than this
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter, cool
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend Pilot Theatre’s Shift Happens conference in York which I also covered for the excellent CultureVulture blog. Now, I’m a pretty jaded conference goer and nowadays I like to think I’ve seen it all before. By the end of the conference’s second day I was [...]
Bradford’s first Social Media Surgery
Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter, cool
Next week sees Bradford become the latest town in the UK hold a Social Media Surgery. The informal gathering of people interested in either teaching or learning how to use the web will be held at The Gumption Centre on July 20th.pecifically aimed at community or voluntary groups, Social Media Surgeries provide free advice to organisations or people on how to set up their own websites, blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages or podcasts. As well as anything else digital that they may be interested in investigating.
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day One
Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology
I love information and I also love design, when design meets information then it’s bound to be fun right? Exactly, that part of the VEN diagram has to be a fertile furrow to plough and I’ve developed a bit of a childish love for the infographic over the last few years. Also, it’s Easter Week [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the single biggest threat to the Social Web
Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter
Chances are that, if you know anybody involved in web development, design or usability, you will already be aware of this but I’m still amazed by how many aren’t. The biggest threat that the Social Web faces today isn’t authoritarian governments, lack of broadband availability or even piracy or hackers. This pervasive threat actually comes [...]
Twitter Lists, Twitter’s first strike against clients?
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Twitter
Interesting developments from Twitter with the recent announcement of the release of their Lists beta feature. For those of you with enough of a life not to care about these things, lists is a feature currently only available to “selected users” that allows you to select lists of your favourite Tweeters. So what form will [...]
Future of Web Apps highlights (#fowa)
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps
It’s official, Carsonified’s excellent Future of Web Apps conference in London chewed me up, spat me out and landed me back in sunny Yorkshire. I’ve had a ball over the three days catching up with some friends and generally talking tech stuff with tech people. Really the only apt way to describe it would be [...]
So you’re thinking of having a Social Media Newsroom?
Posted on 07. Aug, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, PR
There’s no doubt that nowadays Public Relations is getting exponentially harder, Social Media has opened up a new front in the world of PR and people are now joining the industry with a whole different skill set to those who have traditionally been drawn to the dark arts of mass relationship and [...]
Five delightfully pointless but cool twitter uses
Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Twitter
Twitter isn’t all serious, powerful and useful y’know.
Apologies for the lack of updates over the last week or two, I have been very busy working on one or two other pressing things. Namely doing some cool AR (Augmented Reality) research for a friend (some of which I hope to share with you all at a [...]
Five Twitter tools that you’d be mad not to use
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps
Obviously Twitter being news isnt really news any more, strangely though many people I know who have embraced digitality with admirable gusto still dont really get it. Essentially what happens is that Josh or Jade Public sign up to their Twitter account, look up @wossy etc and then wander off bored. Try as I might [...]
Lee Bryant kicks off Reboot Britain with considerable aplomb
Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, cool
NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) are a pretty interesting organisation, they are a sort of Royal Society of the Arts for the digital age cum tech-think-tank, they work across all sectors promoting innovation. It’s a partnership body which, as I can identify from with in my time at Yorkshire Culture, [...]