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Bad news: This blog has pretty much run its course. Nothing very interesting (to me) has happened in this space for a long time. I won’t be updating twopointouch anytime soon. Good news: I’ve started a new blog, called gamethinks.com, which is about computer games. I know this won’t interest a lot of my regular readers, but I’ve produced an experimental social media news page using Feedly Mixes. You can embed this sort of thing into any site you like. As you can see, it grabs and mixes up the content from selected RSS feeds – a list of sites covering the subject, as chosen by me. It then ranks the 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 There’s a famous anecdote from Baudrillard that illustrates some of the fundamentals of postmodernism. A pilot returning from the first Iraq war is interviewed by a television reporter and asked how he found the war. “I don’t know; I missed it” is the reply. He didn’t see it on TV, so it didn’t happen for him. The idea Chris Riley has come up with a great idea for tracking exactly how in touch the BBC website is with its readers. His BBC Touch site compares the top ten headlines on the BBC News front page against their popularity — the news that was actually read. This brief sample shows that we’re a bit |             | |||
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