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Posted by russell on 06 19th, 2009 In readyness for the new Internal Comms Top 10 must follow list I’m testing out polls – here’s one to try. The question is: “If you were marooned on a desert island and could choose just one type of bean to have there, which...

Twitter Internal Comms Top 10:...

Twitter Internal Comms Top 10: NEW!!?
Posted by russell on 06 18th, 2009 This blog has been a tad quite of late as I’ve been busy building social networks out of raw slabs of php (well OK, out of Elgg and WordPress Multi User + BuddyPress), but it’s now time to kick-start it back into action. And what better...

Drupal vs WPMU + BuddyPress + ...

Drupal vs WPMU + BuddyPress + bbpress
Posted by russell on 05 22nd, 2009 2 great projects underway at my web design and social network company West London Web. One is for a client to build a social network site using Drupal, which as it’s under NDA is all I can say at the moment. The 2nd is more a personal project...

Ubik...

Ubik
Posted by russell on 05 12th, 2009 Interesting to compare images of the cover for Philip K Dick’s novel Ubik: #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1...

Islands of Enterprise Social M...

Islands of Enterprise Social Media
Posted by russell on 05 10th, 2009 Last night I dreamed I went to Megacorp again, and as dreams are, this one combined such experiences with work I’ve been doing of late on open source wares and of being in a J G Ballard novel (my nearish neighbour sadly having passing away...
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recent from Communications Yes Tweetminister Yes Tweetminister Not sure why anyone would want to do this, but a new Twitter application lets UK citizens (or anyone else mad enough to do so) follow their MPs on Twitter. Called Tweetminister Wire the app – in beta as I write – is made by Tweetminister and lets users stalk, follow the every move of their...
recent from Theory What is your Cultural Capital? What is your Cultural Capital? Every now and again I like to wonder about social search and the semantic web. I have a secret question, which I shall share, my own personal Turing Test to see if the machine is paying attention. I ask it this – “What is Cultural Capital?” The results vary as the algorithms shift,...
recent from Science Why we don’t click banner ads Why we don’t click banner ads More entertaining research on the human brain, this time from University of California at San Diego. According to Roland Piquepaille writing in Emerging Tech Sexy objects stimulate our brain ones brain’s visual areas respond more to ‘valuable objects’. This starts to raise all...
recent from Music Alice Mashup Alice Mashup Thanks to Dazed Magazine for pointing out this most enjoyable Alice mashup by Fagottron. The music video for my song ‘Alice’, an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’. Enjoy: Technorati Tags: Alice, mashup