When preparing a recent presentation, I went back to my experience with launching Blogactiv to explain what it was like rebutting people who had taken a  passionate hatred to me without actually knowing me (and why I bothered). For the hell of it, I followed some of the old links to the off-site conversations, and [...]

This is just irresistible for anyone, like me, who used to be a Serious Science Journalist before being sucked into the web: Thanks to John Caswell for tweeting me onto this. Yes, I admit it, despite earlier scepticism stretching back to 2007, I am increasingly using twitter, simply as a way of checking out interesting [...]

I’ve been asked to make a presentation at Web 2 EU: Publication 2 Participation, an IABC event held at Boston Uni here in Brussels on May 28. There’s just so much to talk when considering the impact of social media on the EU that I’ve been unsure of exactly where to begin. The main problem [...]

I’ve been asked by the Blogactiv team to lend a hand sorting out the Technical Support Blog and welcome comments. Basically the TSB hasn’t kept pace with the redesign, the platform upgrade and various other changes that have been made to the site since the launch team (Dale, myself and BicycleMark) put it together back [...]