I’m participating in the Nesta #destinationlocal Audience Analytic project with my site My Turriff, where we are looking at amongst other things, audience engagement. I have been thinking about making it easier for people to contact me via the My Turriff site for a while but never got around to doing anything about it, I […]
Fewer news hoaxes on Facebook?
Facebook have announced that they have tweaked their news feed so you should see less hoax stories in there. We can hope! According to the Facebook press release yesterday Hoaxes are a form of News Feed spam that includes scams (“Click here to win a lifetime supply of coffee”), or deliberately false or misleading news […]
Poacher turned gamekeeper?
Anyone who has been around the hyperlocal scene in the past 5 years or so will know that I have had a healthy disregard for press officers in local government. I’ve had many a good battle with with the more enlightened ones like the legendary Dan Slee, who has now escaped local government to work […]
Google+
I really do try and like Google+, I try to use it, share stuff and get involved in the communities, but to be honest it seems a bit of a waste of time. Nothing sums Google+ up better than this picture of a hole for a septic tank shared by Jeff Jarvis, with 157 +1’s, 5 […]
