links for 2013-10-04

04 October 2013 » No Comments

“What we’re creating online are social spaces, right? Places where people come together to have conversations. What we’re seeing is we just haven’t found the right social signals or social codes to make people feel that they have to behave a certain way in certain spaces online.”

@joannageary offers some wise words on the modern interweb and acceptable online social behaviour.

I rather like the analogy between entering different social spaces online. You moderate your behaviour offline as you go about your everyday life. There is a slightly different social you in settings such as employment, with your parents or on the piss at the cricket.

But essentially the core of what makes up the individual remains. You instinctively know what behaviour is suitable for each social setting.

Sort of.

And so why is it so difficult for some to achieve this online?

@joannageary then goes on to explore ideas such as online anonymity, cultural difference and making connections online.

“Even if your real name’s up there, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be a model community member because you don’t necessarily feel connected to the people you’re talking to. We need to do more to make people feel that connection.”

Imagine the first meaningful human communication and the lessons that we learnt after this. The online space has yet to collectively throw a single rock at a wooly mammoth.

Although that does sometimes happen online…

Much to learn.

Innovation, Innovation, Innovation

“The Public Service Innovation Camp will run in an unconference style where you will work in small groups to discuss problems that have been identified as getting in the way of solving social problems and then you will work together to develop new and genuinely different ways of addressing these issues.”

‘cos let’s face it - #localgov is pretty much fucked if it continues in the same economic and structural model that has limped along for the past ten years or so.

ACE work from @futuregov in getting organised to help motivate and find a new model that works for all.

For all the faults of localgov, it isn’t the BIG BEAST that it once was. Coalition cuts have seen to that. Time to find a new way of working, and one that probably is unique to each particular hyperlocal patch.

The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll

“I’m prepared to be bloody-minded about it, even to do without an audience to make the music I want. I’m not interested in the Laters… He’s a nice man, Jools Holland, but it’s not for me. My manager says: ‘Oh, but you’ll reach so many more people and sell more records.’ But I’d rather not, frankly.”

Paddy McAloon on being Mr Prefab for the past thirty years.

Good fortune then that the music that yer man Paddy wants to make is also the music that many want to hear. I’ve yet to really give Crimson / Red any serious consideration - and you must always give a Prefab album some serious consideration - but the timing of the release hasn’t been lost on me.

It was twenty-three autumns ago when Jordan: The Comeback saw me through from late summer all the way through until Christmas shopping. Strings, musical sweeps and doo-wop - if Crimson / Red is even as half-decent as Jordan then it must be job’s a good ‘un.

And yeah - the four-fer with @RobertElms was LOVELY at lunchtime today.