Review of the year: If 2012 is about the Olympics, then let 2011 be all about the croquet!
“haw pal, if your no playing get aff the pitch!” So it is that time of year again – and I can’t believe that we are approaching 2012. It’s always felt so far away. Far away, in the sense that it was the year that i aim to complete my PhD (so therefore my 18 month academic diary is deliberately empty to try and make the writing magic happen) – but also it is the unavoidable year that the UK host the Olympics. I remember the moment when we found out that we had “won” them – long before imagining I would …
Twitter Archiving Revisited: Preparing for the demise of Twapperkeeper
Twapperkeeper: Goodbye Tweet Archives? On the week of a supervision meeting that discussed my methods chapter write up and that returns me to my PhD thesis after 6 weeks away from it working on other things, it was drawn to my attention by several people that those twapperkeeper archives (that we couldn’t export and download anymore but could still access) were to be wiped ahead of its Hootsuite integration in Jan 2012. All those tweets, all that research that never was, compulsively collecting every mention of the #worldcup like I was actually going to bother sifting through them all at a …
Why Social Media Surgeries Work… @UWSDigital #uwsltas
Social Media Surgeries in Melrose on Flickr Last week we completed the final set of social media surgeries, the first half of the project that I’ve been part of in the south of Scotland. So far I’ve made 6 round trips (and about to make the 7th) to Scotland in 6 weeks (a new record even for me), equating to over 4000 miles on the project alone (not including the ad-hoc trips to London and Manchester in between). Of course, part of this is my doing, living in Loughborough and working in Birmingham one day a week – it could …