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Cloud 2 - cloud of knowing meet Tues 23rd

Took place in Brainjuicer's offices - and I have just posted my account of what we talked about on the webjam.  David Bausola talked about DGR research bots. Riva Elliot gathered feedback about new models of journalism advertising and publishing. And I got some feedback on what to focus on at the MRS conference next month when I have only 15 minutes to deliver the written paper of the Cloud of Knowing - content analytics as part of market research. Cloud is attracting some very bright minds indeed - I came away last night hugely energised - and even more so knowing that there were others who had hoped to make it who couldn't but will add their own lustre when they do!

Its a scary thing running an open source project - worrying about if there is enough to interest people and what constitutes success. Cloud is small and focussed - it won't hurt if it gets bigger but as it stands it is proving to be a very useful way to exchange ideas which are so far away from the mainstream of research that I don't know where else we could discuss them.

Ipad sublime or ridiculous?

A range of quirky responses from Dave Walker, through Adolf Hitler(!) to a bunch of sanpro jokes. Nothing very serious!

 

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

that time of the month: best iPad sanpro jokes

Daily Mash.. NEW shiny thing make everything all better, say clever science man yesterday.

There is a serious point to all of this. This is research content. But how are we to analyse it?

At the moment it falls within Netnography - the study of web artefacts but without interviewing those who produced them.  This kind of analysis needs manual analysis which takes into account the genre - humour and the substantive points that are being made using the humour. Striking a serious note here. But that is because I am in mid write of an MRS paper trying to address this very challenge!

Social media analytics

I shall be getting very obsessive over this topic in the next 7 weeks. Here's is a great post about social media analytics by the guru of Web Analytics Avinash Kaushik. He's so lucid he's a pleasure to read. Its not about finding a new killer widget. Its listening to someone who is smart enough to ask the questions before rushing to find the answers. This is an education. And written very accessibly. I would buy his Web Analytics 2.0 but I am still working my way through his first book Web Analytics on an hour a day.