Memesurfing: iSlate and Social Media

There is a fever of anti­cip­a­tion over the imminent release of a tablet-​​​​style computer from Apple – let’s call it the iSlate [Thursday Update — actually, let’s call it the iPad — I stand by everything else in the post, though].

Nobody outside the company knows very much about how it works or its specifications,

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Wonky Rungs

Groundswell – the Forrester Research social media blog — has produced an update to its engage­ment ladder diagram:

The diagram was changed to add in users of Twitter and other ‘status-​​​​update’ applic­a­tions, most notably Facebook. Author Josh Bernoff notes that this group has a dif­ferent demo­graphic make-​​​​up to others:

Conversationalists intrigue me. They’re

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Mobile Internet Users: The Silent Minority

I’ve just installed the WordPress Mobile Pack, a free set of plug-​​​​ins that format, edit and compress your blog so that it works better for mobile users. It switches to the mobile version on-​​​​the-​​​​fly as it detects the user agent (browser) used. There’s a link to the mobile version in the sidebar, if you want to

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Would You Like Herring With That?

The latest storm in a teacup to upset the blo­go­sphere is the spectre of ‘fast-​​​​food content’. Raised as a threat by McArrington himself, the worry is that fast and loose content quickly gen­er­ated to match popular keywords will swamp quality content in search rankings.

…what really scares me? It’s the rise of fast food content

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Past Posterous

I’ve been having a go at the latest chic-​​​​geek blogging tool — pos­terous — recently, as you’ll be able to tell if you look at the posts I’ve made here over the last month or so. But, in the end, I’ve decided not to use it. Why? Read on.

Just to be clear, before

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Foucault – the lot of you

The Foucault post yes­terday seemed to go down well, so I thought I’d chance my arm and respond to a couple of cri­ti­cisms in a new post rather than the comment thread. Sorry, purists.

My erstwhile-​​​​friend Roger from Content & Motion launched the first counter-​​​​offensive. ;-) His main point is about the decent­ral­isa­tion of power in

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