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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
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Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
Tag Archives: sxswi
The difference between SXSWi and SXSWm
iJustine asks the music types about the hot topics in Austin from a week earlier. With Hi Lar Ee Us results! As I mentioned at the time, the shift in culture on the last evening of Interactive and the eve … Continue reading
Objects in Social Spaces
Another unfocused ramble about some ideas I can’t shift from my head… One of the things I have to think about is how people or organisations who either can’t blog or don’t want to blog can engage with the blogging … Continue reading
Post Blog: The Case for Free Municipal WiFi
A while back there was much noise being made about Birmingham being the first city in the country with city-wide WiFi Internet access. This was be supplied by BT Openzone with free access to essential council services and entertainment guides … Continue reading
Licence to Roam
Licence to Roam. Bumped into Rachel Clarke every so briefly at SXSWi and she was a good-un (and from Dudley, but I’ll let that slide as she escaped). Her blog has a few panel transcriptions that put my random key-klunkings … Continue reading
Merlin Mann’s Worst Website Ever
One of probably many moments from SXSWi I wish I was at, saved by the magic of online video. Wish I’d seen this before writing a mildly sarcastic post about Thought Leaders. One cannot compete with The Mann. via sMoRTy71
Measuring Thought Leadership
One of the jargon buzz words at SXSWi this year that kept cropping up was “Thought Leader“. It amused me greatly as it really doesn’t mean anything more than someone who has ideas which some other people listen to and … Continue reading
The stones analogy seemed much better in my head
I really have to stop trying to do TV… Thanks to Chris for salvaging something out of my nonsense!
At SXSWi, the new Twitter is…Twitter
At SXSWi, the new Twitter is…Twitter. This is all true. It was completely integral to the success of the event. I can’t imagine getting nearly as much out of it now the geeks have been replaced by music-types. via Dan … Continue reading
We, the people
SXSWi 2008: We, the people. Great report by Daniel Light with many observations I’d agree with including this. Not the most revolutionary but it jumped out.: Where Facebook holds a mirror up to my life and reflects all the relationships … Continue reading
West Mids Digital Brains Trust
Since I became an internet superstar (and, yes, I’m taking the piss here) I get asked for advice a fair bit. I’m generally happy to do this but I’m reaching saturation point. And I’m also aware that more often that … Continue reading
Tracking the Tracking
One (of the many!) things I want to do this next week is trawl the Brum Blogs Networks for reactions to and work done with all the stuff we’ve been posting from SXSW. This list will hopefully grow and, since … Continue reading
Instant parties via Twitter
Okay, here’s one of my favourite stories of how Twitter (or any related social media tool thingy) can work when a critical mass is reached. At SXSWi Twitter just rules. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is using it to a … Continue reading
Co-working – lessons from Philly
photo by Stef Some notes from talking to to Alex Hillman about the co-working spaces he’s set up in Philadelphia this last year – Independents Hall. Set up community before leasing space. Learn from them as to what they want … Continue reading
aftersxsw wiki
AfterSXSW Wiki. “Or how to keep your South by High all year long…” What it says on the tin.
Tuesday is the last day
Okay. There’s one panel I really want to do today: Take Municipal Wifi Back, a subject close to my heart which I want to write about for the Birmingham Post blogs on my return. The question I have is whether … Continue reading
Quarry Legend
Sometimes you meet heroes, sometimes you meet peers and sometimes you meet legends. Here’s me at Fray with Brad Graham who, one fateful day in September 1999, coined the term “blogosphere” and has never managed to live it down. He … Continue reading
How to get BrumCamps going
Talking to Joey Devilla in the Bloghaus about how to develop meetups and the like using wikis and blogs, which is something I’ve been thinking about all weekend. He mentioned a guy called David Crow who’s apparently the brains behind … Continue reading
Feedhaus
Feedhaus. A thing for tagging feeds and then putting them into “clouds” which I see as tagging tags. Still in early stages (no RSS feeds yet) but the concept is intriguing. I thought the cloiuds might be like OPML files … Continue reading
SXSW Interactive ≠ Social
SXSW Interactive ≠ Social « Joanna Geary I’ve noticed a lot of people shouting about how “social” their product or job is, without actually seeming to have any social skills themselves. It’s like the loud guy who walks into the … Continue reading
Self Repicating Awesomeness
Self Replciating Awesomeness notes.