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    Foursquare and Starbucks Team Up to Offer Customer Rewards: Foursquare means business. The 1-year-old startup no... http://bit.ly/aRC251

    Thursday 17:22

    RT @DaBeathead: RT @MayerHawthorne: Christopher Walken pancake! http://twitpic.com/17y7l3 <<< gotta gets me one of dem templates ! < WTF!

    Thursday 16:50

    RT @web_buzz: SEO: Study: Twitter Users 3 Times More Active than Average Social Media Users: The Community Participation Pyra... http://bit.ly/9DZyrb

    Thursday 16:51

    RT @jaamit: getting excited bout #thinkvis tomorrow < have a good one. We'll be listening :)

    Thursday 16:46

    RT @serafinowicz: I imagine Superman must have some kind of reinforced toilet.

    Thursday 16:44

    RT @dhinchcliffe: RT @timoreilly Obama Appoints Edward Tufte to Recovery Advisory Panel--Big Victory for Data Vis & Open Govt http://bit.ly/9IIWNh #gov20

    Thursday 16:41

    I'm seeing Fresh Egg 5th for SEO tonight! We rock :) http://bit.ly/c4sDh9

    Thursday 15:48

    4 Fun and Crazy Chatroulette Videos: Random video chat site Chatroulette is a pop culture smash right now, and w... http://bit.ly/cCQWtm

    Thursday 14:57

Telegraph website tops newspaper website market share league

http://www.nma.co.uk/the-telegraph-becomes-most-popular-online-newspaper/3000317.article?nl=DN
This is interesting news – it marks a win for the Telegraph in the attention markets.
For some time iCrossing’s Head of Social Media Antony Mayfield has banged on about how the Telegraph set up their new Victoria offices. It was set up to be much more like a trading floor, and indeed uses the same [...]

Swineflu, Twitter & Cyberchondria

The term ‘cyberchondriac’ has been around for a while now and the current wildfire proliferation of comments and mass panic about swineflu is endemnic to the term.
Where most breaking news can carry an image association (Twitpic or other platform) to allow one to make one’s own assumptions/decisions about a subject the spread of a virus [...]

Tornadoes in space – Northern Lights mystery solved

At last scientists appear to have sussed how the northern lights phenomenon is created. An article in the Sunday Times today that the sun’s electrical rays that are known to shower the earth gather in a cloud on ‘the dark side’ and are drawn back in by magnetic fields. The clouds are drawn back at [...]

IBM shift from Knowledge Management to Knowledge Sharing

I don’t know whether I was disappointed or surprised to see a blog post this morning heralding such a paradigm shift for a company like IBM. From where I’m sitting this practice should be endemnic of the world’s best companies. I guess, typically though, the bigger the corporation the harder the shift.
One of the strengths [...]

IBM on change, intelligence, connectivity and analytics

And on the subject of IBM… there’s another great article on the BBC Technology website featuring an interview with Brendan Riley, CEO of IBM, and talking about intelligence, connectivity and analytics.
It is now possible to infuse intelligence into the way the world works.
The financial turmoil has reminded us that we are all now connected – [...]

A momentous day in world politics or a hoax?

So did April 2nd 2009 herald such ground breaking change as it really felt? I’ve no idea, and feel I’m sure as most people feel, that no one actually knows what the outcomes will be as a result of such a reduclous figure as $1 trillion dollars being thrust into needy hands.
One thing is for [...]