Monthly Archives: October 2007

Is the Wellington City Council ignoring Facebook?

A couple of days ago I was a speaker at a meeting of the Public Communicators Network. This was great (thanks again for letting me come along!) and really uplifting. My co-speaker was Catrina McDiarmid from NZAid, who have been blogging since the Tsunami-disaster in 2004, and who have had really good experiences with it. In general the Public Sector [...]

Seesmic is awesome fun

Loic Le Meur has a new start-up, for which I scored a pre-alpha tester account. Seesmic is a new Social Application which has been compared to Twitter, but you upload little videos. It is a great idea! Furthermore, it lets you add accounts you have on other Social Applications (like Skype, Twitter or YouTube) so [...]

digitalks 01 – reviews wanted

The first digitalk was on last Tuesday night in Vienna (I wrote about digitalks before). Apparently it was a full house, my friend Andreas was late but Meral was kind enough to let him in anyway. I’ve watched some clips about the evening, because unfortunately I couldn’t be there. As expected, it was an introduction [...]

Social Networks are diverse

My feed delivered this article to me today. It is making a good point about the Long Tail that is Social Networks. You might be a resident of MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn, or even have a few accounts to stay in touch with a range of your acquaintances, but have you ever even looked at [...]

About the Free Burma campaign on Facebook

If you are interested about the influence of the Facebook group I wrote about yesterday, read this article on Wired. I see this as more evidence for the growing power of the Facebook group feature. What do you think?

Free Burma

Today is an international Action Day, where bloggers are called to raise awareness for the peaceful protest of the monks in Burma. I thought I’d post some info I found on the Facebook group “Support the Monks’ protest in Burma“. There is a long list of dates for protests around the world. Peaceful protest is [...]