I've been meaning for awhile to comment on "digital forgetting" – this is a concept I agree with Wired – in that it will become more important online in 2010 and beyond. Otherwise we end up with spam and social media detritus everywhere. Here's the...

I was doing a little research for an upcoming trip to San Francisco today and I got served up an adwords ad for Microsoft's Bing search engine. I thought this was funny. Maybe this part of Google's efforts to share the wealth and ensure a semi-healthy...

This is the first in a series of posts on the future of local media that in the end I will aggregate together to produce a short whitepaper. My goal is to share my thoughts as well as pull together insight from many others into a synthesis or “fuller...

Sat Nav Data on a Park Sign I was recently on Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset. While playing with the kids at  a playground on the beach I noticed the park sign had a sat nav postcode on it: Sat Nav: BH13 7QQ It also had the address of the nearest A&E...

The Local Social Summit which I co-organised with Simon Baptist has been hailed a success despite the rain . The general feedback was that it rated 8 out 10, although I would give it a 7 as there were a few things we will improve next time we run the...