social media

Can loved up evangelists learn to reflect?

May 27, 2011

I’ve been on Twitter long enough that my followings have built up cumulatively, a few a week, to something that looks impressive on a cursory glance. Long enough that it’s really a big part of my life, and that I sometimes put hashtags into emails or refer to people by their Twitter handles instead of their names. Long enough to see it appearing in my job description from time to time. But… talk about Twitter tends to be either reductive criticism by people who don’t get it, or loved up recommendations from social media evangelists, which is what we all become, eventually.

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Remember #Pepsigate?

May 18, 2011
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What’s new to me is the potential for science blogs to be a serious alternative to the often superficial coverage of science in the mainstream media. The panel talked about the way Nature/Science dominate their respective coverage. One of the most attractive things about science blogging is how by sharing ideas, by articulating ideas and by being exposed to ideas, it creates a fertile space for innovation.

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Maybe it’s time to accept failure

January 19, 2011
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Okay, so let’s start by agreeing none of us like to fail. It’s in our cells. But I’m interviewing Yiying Lu tomorrow, yes she of the fail whale, and I’m thinking about failure. And our relationship with failure.

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Caught in an information rip?

January 12, 2011
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Being interconnected and tapped into the global flow of data has its risks. Personal risks, global risks, fundamental challenges like the mass extinction of Australia’s biodiversity. But there’s also the very real chance of good – the ability to understand each other, to have richer, far more fulfilling experiences, to come up with new ideas, to solve some of these big problems. Finding the balance is crucial.

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Proving ideas in a crisis

January 12, 2011
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It seems careless to think about creativity when friends and family in Brisbane are being evacuated in the face of rising floodwaters. It’s a crisis. But it’s also a showcase for good ideas. Like wearing dive boots. But a hundred other great things too.

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