Jul
21
Does Twitter encourage intimacy?
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A number of different people have talked to me in the last few weeks about Twitter and intimacy. I was running a workshop for civil servants at the DCMS – thanks to the introduction from @marxculture – and many worried that Twitter was too intimate: that they would sacrifice too much privacy for too little [...]
Jul
16
Launching the Bloggers Circle
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So, after lots of conversations, consultations and recruiting a widerange of bloggers, we’re ready to launch the Bloggers Circle, thanks to the RSA. It’s intended in the spirit of constructiveness and debate. It’s open to anyone who thinks it would be useful and I hope that its initial members can find out how, why and [...]
Jun
1
Bloggers circle expands
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The idea for the bloggers circle took a major step forward today, thanks to The Guardian. Matt Seaton, the editor of Comment is Free got in touch with some ideas for how we can develop the concept. As a result, I can reveal that: the winner of ‘blogpost of the month’ will be able to [...]