There’s a first time for everything and, this weekend, I joined in for the first time with a Barcamp in my home city of Bradford.  A barcamp is an informal meeting of innovation enthusiasts, where anyone can contribute or lead a session. I thought I’d be in for a  strange kind of day, possibly filled [...]

I saw this news story today from Neville Hobson‘s (@jangles) Twitterfeed. I’ll let you do the reading, but, in a nutshell, it’s the report of a study that suggests young people could be damaged, emotionally, by using Twitter.  The reason being that we can process negative stories much faster than positive ones, leaving us with [...]

Snow.  I’m not sure if you noticed it this week.  It was hard to avoid, because it brought the capital to a standstill and meant many of us worked from home.  On Monday I did manage to get into work, though I left for home early having watched increasing reports with some alarm.  However, unlike [...]

There was a bit of good news for Web 2.0 enthusiasts in the MJ this week, with a two page spread on innovation (see the “How Innovative Is Your Council” post) and an article on the use of social networking.  Refreshingly, the Facebook article was written by a facebook user, meaning it looked at the [...]