Blackbeard Blog

140 Characters (London) Report

Nov 29th

Climate Sceptics Seize On Leaked Emails

Nov 24th

10. Being There

Certainly if there was one background note of the conference, it was authenticity: rarely defined,...

Nov 23rd

9. Disintermediation

The risk of confrontation posed by hashtags sits at odds with another great theme of the conference...

Nov 23rd

8. A Quick Digression On Hashtags

Twitter of course has evolved a mechanism for creating a breach in your social graph – the hashtag....

Nov 23rd

7. The Graph Is The World

At the root of the Breakfast Barrier is the great problem of Twitter (and by extension other social...

Nov 23rd

6. Them And Us: The Breakfast Barrier

There is still, in other words, a Breakfast Barrier for Twitter. As in, “It’s just people talking...

Nov 23rd

5. Realtime's Growing Pains

(Continuing my series of posts on the 140 Characters Conference) According to one speaker on the...

Nov 23rd

4. Meaning In The Stream

Issues of immediacy and agility were in the background whenever the talks turned to using the...

Nov 20th

3. The Thing Is The Idea

A glimpse at the more sustained changes realtime is ringing came from the panel of Venture...

Nov 20th

2. The Process Is The Story

Some of the case studies on offer were more interesting. Kodak, who sponsored the whole event and...

Nov 20th

1. Social Landfill

I’ll start with the marketing stuff, because I work in that field, though in some ways it seemed the...

Nov 20th

0. On The Disparate Edge Of Now

I went to the 140 Characters conference on Tuesday and took a lot of notes, expecting to write a...

Nov 20th

The Future Of Research: 10 Odd Ideas

Here are ten things I think might happen in and to market research before too long. As usual,...

Nov 10th