Tag: Blogging

• 7 November 2008

  UGC its rude, its wrong and it misses the point

  Despite recent reports that blogging is dead traditional media companies are still rushing to embrace UGC – User Generated Content – and in many ways that’s great. Except User Generated Content is the wrong framing and so risks failing to deliver the benefits it might. I also find it a rather rude term. Newspapers and […]
• 9 December 2007

  On writing about Perl on Rails

  When I wrote about ‘Perl on Rails’ on the BBC’s Radio Labs blog, naively perhaps, I didn’t expect the storm that resulted. I wrote it because I thought that it was interesting and I hoped that others would find it interesting. Those that followed the story will be aware that much of the discussion wasn’t […]
• 3 July 2007

  Facebook: new social network site; same old walled garden

  Last year the buzz was around MySpace now its Facebook and before that Friends Reunited and Linkedin. I have to confess that I’ve never really grokked these services – I’ve played around with them a bit – but generally never really got that much out of them. Preferring to stick with email, IM, Flickr, del.icio.us […]