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    How Hollywood Is Finally Cashing in on Web Video: Let’s be honest, you probably can’t call yourself a couch potato... http://bit.ly/aotb1W

    Sunday 22:41

    How Non-Profits Can Maximize a Foursquare Account: Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related w... http://bit.ly/cnMPy3

    Sunday 22:41

    How Social Media Drives New Business: Six Case Studies: Businesses both big and small are flocking to social media... http://bit.ly/bYQQ53

    Sunday 22:41

    Facebook Will Celebrate 500 Million Users Next Week: Facebook will finally reach the impressive 500 million user m... http://bit.ly/awZkEB

    Sunday 22:41

    Guinness and a roast with @misslucie and her girls :) (@@ The Hop Poles) http://4sq.com/as5fuh

    Sunday 12:34

    Hard days picking over at Rent A Cheery Tree. Lucy and I now both in the kitchen cooking jam and making cherry brandy! http://bit.ly/auT2Xb

    Saturday 20:51

    Use Chrome like a pro: This week I sent a note to Googlers about some of the Chrome team's favorite extensions. S... http://bit.ly/9w6CJ1

    Thursday 22:45

Defeating the Dark Side of Social Networking

Six Recommendations
To try to respond to conversations about their brands in social media, companies would do well to consider six sets of actions:
¶ Develop a "social customer management" strategy that includes technical and business process components designed to engage customers in conversations on the Web.
¶ Automate as much interaction with customers as possible, so call-center [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28

If Zuckerberg thinks Google is last decade he really needs to sort his search facility out! http://bit.ly/bPKgWD #
If I ever liked Japan I've gon off it after reading this Times article today: http://bit.ly/drvKDF #
Awesome, awesome, awesome one-take video from OK Go: http://bit.ly/9jC5dg #
Facebook traffic increased 185% compared to Google's 9% over the last year [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-21

The Conservation of Angular Momentum! Awesome. Wonders of the Solar System – BBC2 #
RT @ralphsparkle: RT @serafinowicz: Wow. F_CK SH_T STACK from @reggiewatts. VERY strong language! http://bit.ly/brnQ24 #
RT @neyne: It is official: Pagerank diminishes with 301 redirection http://bit.ly/bNe1oR #
@craighepburn Don;t get distracted by pimpthisbum.com as I just did then Craig :0 in reply to craighepburn [...]

Mad Men: A Foucaultian take

I previously offered a Weberian reading of The Wire. And now I’m equally convinced that Mad Men is an outstanding Foucaultian deconstruction of contemporary American capitalism. In some ways the two play off against each other very well. The Wire is concerned constantly with norms, rules, duties: to whom am I responsible? What are the [...]

My All Time Top Ten… Tunes

This has got to be the hardest “My All Time Top Ten” list! Movies were hard, but with such a broad range of stuff I like, and with the voracious nature of my habit(!) there’s a lot of water under the bridge!!
One thing I realise as I pull together the list is that (fairly obviously) [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

Glorious sunshine eeking buds out of plants everywhere on my lunchtime stroll! #spring #
RT @Prycie: http://bit.ly/cRi5JF good article on why metric are killing creativity in agencies #
Can anyone recommend someone who could fit a bath? Brighton & Hove area #
Plotting stuff on Google Maps takes a while (mind you it was a 5 month road [...]

My All Time Top Ten… Holidays

1. Cote D’Azur, France

Photo credit: me!
Let’s get one thing straight first off – I am an avid Francophile. I’d love to live there. But I love to holiday there more! Since I was first able to travel on my own I’ve been travelling south through France.
It’s all very easy to say the Cote D’Azur, but [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Religious mash up http://twitpic.com/15ufof #
@kelvinnewman Lyndon was hoping to speak at #brightonseo in March… not poss? in reply to kelvinnewman #
RT @dannyguk: RT @kelvinnewman: RT@ZacharyColbert: #BrightonSEO makes it to the Guardian http://bit.ly/9nl4pW #
Unilever launches Marmite XO following social media campaign: LONDON – Unilever has launched an extra-mature varie… http://bit.ly/9fkql2 #
@special_noodles @nijay There's a place [...]

My All Time Top Ten… Movies

1. The Insider (Michael Mann)

Why? Well because of everything. This is the movie that it is hard to find fault with anywhere. Michael Mann’s directing style is unique and this is the best in his repertoire. His use of low level lighting and tight angles is used to best effect here.
This is also arguably Russel [...]