I’m over in the US at the moment, and I was out of the office all of last week as well, but I see that the BBC has been visiting my friends and colleagues at the Hursley mothership. The coverage is in two parts. Firstly there’s a nice article on the BBC News website which [...]

I mentioned in my 2009 predictions that there were some exciting things I had seen going on with both social media/web 2.0 and virtual worlds and specific applications to deal with something as a whole. One such business currently in development, that got my interest, is around the sports coaching profession. Sports coaches all around [...]

BoingBoing has an article linking to danah boyd’s now public PHD thesis on Teen Sociality online. What I have read so far has been very interesting, I was looking forward to seeing it as I got to meet danah at the Handheld learning 2008 event where she made some great points around the evolving of [...]

I did seriously have someone (in fact more than one person) suggest that there was not much happening in virtual worlds these days. I think they may have been referring to less press based “me first” stories. Of course I should not mock as if people’s touch points dont see whats happening and if they [...]

It may sometimes seem as if eightbar is taking over dogear nation, but the founding two Michaels(Martine and Rowe) are honoury eightbars anyway, so Andy Piper doing the recording and editing for the show is not quite so bizarre. Anyway this weeks show features your truly as a guest. I almost missed out the podcast [...]

During a recent twitter exchange @Renzephyr tweeted an @slhamlet post on GigaOm about the 10 potentialy game changing games for 2009. The list is in part compiled by David Edery so it is worth take note of. Of course many people will see games and 2009 and think about more driving, shooting, puzzle games etc. [...]

Over at Ugotrade once again Tish has done a fantastic post about Homecamp which includes a stack of my fellow eightbars. There is also a great interview with Andy SC about all things Current Cost meter, Second Life visualizations of his automated house and Smart Planet in general. Many threads are coming together now, a [...]

A few weeks ago I got my copy of Grown Up Digital by Don Tapscott. I had only skimmed it initially, but recently managed to finish reading it properly. Cleary many others have too. Netociety tweeted a few links to some articles about the book and with Tapscott’s thoughts and that discussion reminded me I [...]

A few of us seem to have accidentaly moved into an arena where we have made a name for ourselves, connected with all sorts of other people, worked the web and web2.0, delivered and shared ideas, led the way despite never being asked to. That has led to some personal branding and in the case [...]

I have to say, that I do like this advert/infomercial from our colleagues at IBMSocial media. “Sir are you a frozen chicken?” brilliant :)