Malcolm Tucker’s Guide on How to Use a Focus Group

I was recently given The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC files – a book that is ostensibly the lost secret governmental files of one Malcolm Tucker, the political spin doctor featured in The Thick of It on TV and In The Loop in the cinema. Among the many funny segments in the book is [...]

Social media dichotomies

I’ve been having a think about the different types of social media services. Structurally, different services can be very different. Below are a few bipolar scales that different services can find themselves upon Structure Public <——————-> Private Permanent <————-> Transient Centralised <————-> Decentralised Hierarchical<————> Non-hierarchical Automatic <————–> Manual Exclusive <—————> Inclusive Zero-sum <—————> Shared gain [...]

Cutting the current

I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions, particularly since I never actually seem to keep them. But I start with good intentions, so I suppose that is at least something. In 2009, I vowed to read less, but better. That sort of happened, but the mass of information makes it difficult to resist. In 2010, [...]