/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Picking out patterns in the chaos en-us suw.charman@gmail.com 2008-03-23T18:11:52+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/03/23/kits_and_mortar.php It's been a few years since I last started a new blog and the old itch has returned in the form Kits and Mortar, our new eco- and cat-friendly self-build blog. I've wanted to build a house for as long... 73178@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2008-03-23T18:11:52+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/07/06/is_participation_inequality_actually_a_problem.php A few weeks ago I wrote a post over on Conversation Hub about participation inequality and the "1% Rule", which states that for any community, one per cent of your users will participate fully, nine per cent will participate infrequently,... 72473@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2007-07-06T20:49:20+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/07/02/scary_monsters_does_social_software_have_fangs.php Last week I gave a tech talk at Google about social software within business, the difficulties we face when introducing it to people, and tactics for fostering adoption. I spoke for about 25 minutes, and then we had a lively... 72462@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2007-07-02T11:09:48+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/06/07/amnestyobserver_irrepressibleinfo_anniversary.php I was at the one year anniversary of the Amnesty International-Observer Irrepressible.info campaign looking at challenges to the freedom of information on the internet. The event started with recorded statements by citizen journalism pioneer Dan Gillmor and Jimmy Wales... 72375@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2007-06-07T07:01:32+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/05/04/frontline_club_politics_and_blogging.php Last night, Suw and I went to a discussion on World Press Freedom Day at the Frontline Club here in London. I've tidied up my liveblog notes and added a little commentary as well as tried to link out... 72282@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2007-05-04T15:58:35+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/03/13/search_useless_for_blogs.php Interesting little piece from eMarketer about how people find the blogs they read. It's really no surprise to discover that 67% of respondents find blogs through links from other blogs, and 23% via recommendations, but I like the way they... 72121@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2007-03-13T22:08:46+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/02/23/six_apart_spins_like_a_whirling_dervish.php I've refrained from blogging about Six Apart lately, because I have nothing positive to say about them or their products right now, but I'm afraid I can't let their latest marketing email pass without calling bullshit. I have spent the... 72063@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2007-02-23T16:38:40+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/01/12/strange_attractor_podcast_iii_web_20_myths_blog_fuckwittery_and_twitter.php Suw and I have been away from podcasting for a while. It's only been 107 days, Odeo tells me, since the last podcast. Erk. Sorry. We decided to relegate Suw's tried but tired £7.99 Tandy-special plastic microphone and get... 71686@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2007-01-12T20:44:57+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/12/14/feed_the_geeks.php Last week, my good friend Chris Vallance was asked in a radio interview: "What is a geek?" After the interview, he asked me how I would have answered. I thought about it for a while. A geek is someone who... 70548@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2006-12-14T09:35:25+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/11/15/exploding_the_blog_myth.php I really shouldn't take the piss out of a British media icon, but in this case, it's just too inviting. Jeff Jarvis pointed out something in the Indy, in which they asked a bunch of British media heavyweights about the... 69195@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2006-11-15T23:45:51+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/11/01/is_flock_the_ultimate_blogging_tool_for_journalists_almost.php I first used Flock last year after meeting Chris Messina in Paris. He was working to get the word out about the read/write browser at the time. I really liked the idea, partially because it just makes sense as a... 68413@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2006-11-01T22:51:07+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/10/the_most_awesome_comment_system_ever.php Jack Slocum has hacked together the most awesome blog commenting system I have ever seen, using a combination of Wordpress, Yahoo UI and YAHOO.ext. He's created a system for paragraph- or sentence-level comments with a slick AJAX user interface which... 67048@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2006-10-10T15:08:36+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/05/der_standard.php Austrian paper Der Standard report on my presentation at BlogTalk. Thanks to Horst for both the image and the translation.... 66754@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blink › 2006-10-05T09:49:37+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/09/29/shift_martin_roll_time_for_a_shift.php How we need to change our thinking and acting to use information technology sensibly. At these sorts of conferences, there seems to be quest for identity, to find out who we are, and how we shape the word, and how... 66367@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2006-09-29T11:07:40+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/09/18/why_i_blog_and_why_the_msm_should_and_many_times_shouldnt.php That's the title of the talk I gave last week at IBC and that I have given in various forms at other places over the last year. I began the talk by showing off some numbers from Dave Sifry's most... 65719@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Storytelling/Writing 2006-09-18T23:05:29+00:00