Tag Archive: Social Media

• Total Recall: notes from my Leeds Digital Conference talk

  I’ve finally written up notes from my talk at the Leeds Digital Conference 2012. I’ve been a Last.fm user since 2006, but 2012 was finally the year I stopped using the service. Not due to some great epiphany about life-logging,…

• Leeds Digital Conference preview

  Lots of digital thought is converging on Leeds next week, and I’ll be doing a talk as part of it. The Leeds Digital Conference features a mix of talks and sessions covering design, development, marketing, SEO and blogging. It’s part…

• Twelve stories high

  I went along to the third incarnation of The Story, a conference based around storytelling in its many forms, in the fantastic Conway Hall in London. There was a pleasingly eclectic roster of speakers, all lovingly emblazoned on the solid…

• Creative Networks – Patrick Burgoyne from Creative Review

  It was a full house in the lecture theatre at Leeds College of Art & Design last night, for June’s Creative Networks get-together. There was a nice pre-talk vibe due to it coinciding with the end-of-year shows for the various…

• Are Facebook’s vanity URLs in vain?

  There’s been quite a buzz over the last few days around Facebook introducing vanity URLs, but is it really what users need? Of course, the word ‘vanity’ denotes that it doesn’t meet a user ‘need’ and is an added bonus,…