Category: Blogs | Social Networks | New Media
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UK Election ‘in a few weeks’? | It was until…
Oh dear, things don’t get any better for this calamitous administration. Seems like he didn’t understand how Twitter works – replies are viewable by everyone. The account is now deleted, and we can probably assume that date in the diary has been too. Oops. HT ToryBear via DizzyThinks.
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Critiquing Social Networks | Technological Bad Faith
Nic and I have been having some good exchanges recently around issues of our relationship with technology. It’s something that’s prominent in the forthcoming book, but I wanted to introduce a few of the ideas here and hopefully provoke some debate to sharpen my own thoughts. My view is that while we do create tools,…
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Mission as Entrepreneurial Activity?
Ben has an excellent and honest post here outlining his doubts about the ‘missional entrepreneur’ that is in popular parlance. I’ve posted a comment outlining some thoughts on how the role of the artist might help us imagine this in a new way. Technorati: Ben Edson | Mission | Entrepreneur
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Book | Endorsements
I’ve just received a copy of the book from Baker, and I have to say it looks great – thanks to everyone who’s worked so hard to get it to the shelves! I’m also very thankful for the great endorsements that the book carries – thank you all so much! I liked them so much…
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Blog Tinkering…
Excuse a few design experiments and general untidiness for a few days… just having a spring clean before the book hits the shelves in a few days 😉
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Parasitic, Aggressive Blogs?
Thanks to Ben for the link: “Blogs,” [Oliver Kamm] wrote, “typically do not add to the available stock of commentary: they are purely parasitic on the stories and opinions that traditional media provide.” In The Guardian, Jonathan Freedland pointed out that the abusive, vitriolic nature of many blogs had turned the blogosphere into a “claustrophobic…