February ← 2012 ← #Interhacktives

Is social media bad for your health?

Feb

2012

Yesterday Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, took to the lectern at a Montreal business conference and said over-use of his micro-blogging site is bad for your health. “I like the kind of engagement where you go to the website and you leave because you’ve found what you are looking for or you found something very interesting ...

#twittamentary – A storify of the show

Feb

2012

Interhacktives contributors @Andrewstuart and @r_ratclif went to see the #twittamentary screening as part of social media week, presented by Media 140. Here is our Storify of the event. The Twittamentary shown at the Innovation Warehouse as part of Social Media Week – London. These are the tweets from @interhacktives and others around it. View the story ...

365 storytellers take on a Year

Feb

2012

3hundredand65 is a collaborative online storytelling project that’s raising money to support the Teenage Cancer Trust by inviting contributors to “crowdauthor a graphic novel”. Each day, a new writer progresses the story via a single Tweet to the organizers. Their tweet is then illustrated and added to the website. The plot is a science fiction, ...

Today’s Audioboo!

Feb

2012

Today’s Audioboo giving us a roundup on Interhacktives is here. Recorded by Andrew Stuart, it’s recorded at Spa Fields. Enjoy it! Interhacktives boo 3! @interhacktives (mp3) Enjoy, comment and post a reply audioboo. Andrew. Share this:TwitterGoogle +1FacebookLinkedInMoreStumbleUponRedditDiggPrintEmail

#SMWLDN: Experts give vital blogging tips [video]

Feb

2012

London’s blogosphere descended upon the basement of The Long Acre tonight to celebrate the end of what has been the first day of Social Media Week London and to take part in their regular Meet-up. Established London-based bloggers – some of which have been at it for 11 years now – shared their thoughts on ...

#SMWLDN: what’s it about and what we’re going to cover

Feb

2012

Social Media Week is a multi-city real-time conference that aims to take the global social networking conversation to the next level. As Martin Bryant explains, it’s an international celebration of the way online social tools are transforming the world we live in. #SMW allows people around the world to participate in a live conversation about how social shifts ...

Whitney Houston death tweets – a hashtag story

Feb

2012

Earlier tonight the world learned of Whitney Houston’s death. Little over three hours afterwards, the story is all over the internet: on the BBC news website, on the Rolling Stone website with celebrity tweets gathered on Mashable too. The immediate obituaries clearly show these were planned and written beforehand, with ABC’s 3 page piece being ...

Do you want to #drawahorse? It’s all explained here:

Feb

2012

The #drawahorse hashtag is something that took off very recently, and it all started here at City University, London. We at Interhacktives would be missing a trick if we didn’t explain how it all started, so we got in touch with the person behind it all, a Mr Thomas Carlo Morris, AKA @iamdjcarlo, to tell us ...

Breaking the news on Twitter

Feb

2012

Breaking news on Twitter is not something that’s new, but it is now being seemingly regulated by the powers-that-be at Sky News and the BBC News operations. Share this:TwitterGoogle +1FacebookLinkedInMoreStumbleUponRedditDiggPrintEmail