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Kevin: A comparison between sales data for Motorola's Droid, Apple's iPhone and Google's Nexus One. There is some very good, nuanced analysis of the numbers, and this comment from the Android Guys: "Looking at the super phone that is the Nexus One over its first 90 days, one would get the sense that it's a monumental failure."
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Kevin: The post covers a panel on crowdsourced or collaborative journalism from the online-only Seattle P-I and the New York Times, Journerdism.com and Gizmodo. The Wikipedia quotes come for a separate interview by Mike Melanson at ReadWriteWeb. Robert Mackey, the reporter for the New York Times, said in terms of verifying content via Twitter and YouTube out of Iran last year, it wasn't possible. "The idea is that it's a conversation on the web about this event."
Daily Archives: March 17, 2010
Report: Making the Connection: The use of social technologies in civil society
Last year I wrote a report for the Carnegie UK Trust’s Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland. Called Making the Connection: The use of social technologies in civil society, it’s now available for download. Although focused primarily on the use of social media by the charitable sector, there’s still a lot of interesting stuff in it for business, I think, not least future scenarios that try to imagine what the world might be like in 2025 and pose some questions for organisations about their ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Please do take a look and let me know what you think!