The Guardian’s live blogs are what I use to keep up with what’s going on. Social? Way too much. Eurovision Sports Live, the EBU’s streaming service, is the cherry on the cake, bringing BBC1 and BBC2 onto my computer. Here’s today’s liveblogs, packed with information, humour and links: what’s on today all the action athletics rowing [...]
The latest news:rewired conference took place on 13 July. With the tagline: Full stream ahead and a focus on tools, techniques and tips there were lots of juicy takeaways. Stonking coverage – liveblogged using CoveritLive, followed by a summary blog post and then a compilation of presentations and video (although they aren’t quite all there yet and there’s [...]
Here are 13 things from #heasocsci, the Higher Education Academy’s social sciences conference on 28-29 May. See #heasocsci: social media and social sciences for a picture of the event from social media. Liveblogging is hard, especially when you are tweeting as well. There were some useful posts on the new social sciences blog, but both bloggers were [...]
It’s that time again…it seems to work OK if I save stuff to Read It Later and then run through what I’ve saved at the weekend. Some stuff gets saved elsewhere, mainly to Evernote, but quite a lot just gets marked as read – not as useful after only a couple of days have past. Read It Later haul [...]
Events have a distinct lifecycle. made up of three stages. And it’s not all about Twitter. Socious discuss what this means in terms of engagement, including some interesting statistics from a recent conference. This showed a 96% drop in tweets after the conference – hardly surprising, but reflecting a lack of post-event conversation. After a [...]
Still struggling with the Twitter fire hose – liking the reality check here. Amplify’d from climbtothestars.org A year and a bit ago, the theme of LeWeb’09 in Paris was “Real-Time Web”, and indeed, everybody was a-buzz with everything real-time. So much so that I had to give that year’s official bloggers a little wake-up call [...]