Tag: socialreporting

Coming round to ‘hyperlocal’: my notes on the Talk About Local unconference 2010

  • April 18, 2010 at 6:47 pm

  • ‘Hyperlocal’ has been a buzzword in the online engagement community for about eighteen months, and to be honest it’s not one I’ve been comfortable with: why try and define a sub-category of ‘local’ which is itself pretty undefinable? I still have a bit of a problem with it, but yesterday it did become clearer to [...]

Could foursquare empower people to break commercial advantage?

  • November 24, 2009 at 10:22 am

  • A while ago I chewed over the problem of making it easy for members of the public to leave useful contextualised information for others in spite of opposing commercial incentives. Whether their developers intended it or not, foursquare could be the solution. I had been incensed by a cashpoint in Birmingham’s International Convention Centre. It [...]

Citizensheep's audio on Audiofarm

  • August 17, 2009 at 3:02 pm

  • I’ve been lookikng for a good audio sharing service for a while, and stumbled across Audiofarm. You can choose to grant your files ‘preview only’ playback or Creative Commons licencing. It would be great if the site also offered some annotation features and codes for embedding into web pages as well as the sharing options [...]

Bookmarks for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009

  • January 16, 2009 at 4:00 am

  • These are my links for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009: Us Now: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet – "Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. Us Now tells the stories of online networks that are [...]