I first met Nancy Baym on Twitter, and now we’re also friends on Facebook. We’ve talked via email about a couple of things as well. She’s a professor in the US and we have some mutual friends in common, many of whom one or both of us have never actually met in person. She’s written [...]
Categories: culture,Education,Technology,University
Tagged: Academic, Internet, Interview, Music, Social media
Not content with having deleted my MySpace account last week, I’ve just deactivated my Facebook account. That doesn’t mean I’ve deleted it – it just means that it’s not currently active. Everything can be retrieved at a later stage, and I’ll still be friends with all the same people when/if I do return. It’s just [...]
Categories: 30 Days,Technology
Tagged: Facebook, Internet, Social media
Photo by absentmindedprof When you write a personal blog, you tend not to only write about yourself. Well, not always, anyway… My working theory is that personal blogs are at their best when considered as narrative – a story that develops over time. And that story, if it’s any good, is going to have characters. [...]
Categories: 30 Days,Idea,Uncategorized
Tagged: blogging, Facebook, Narrative, Social media
There are people I know who would be horrified at this ratio I don’t know if you use Twitter, but it’s really quite remarkably useful. More so back when it did the updates to your mobile phone, before they stopped all that here in the UK – but even so, still a really cool bit [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Hamburg, Internet, Seminar, Shambala, Social media, Twitter
