Posts tagged with 'Social media'

Millions of people are sharing, talking and having the time of their lives in special interest groups. Maybe we should join them.

A baby pygmy hippo called Haggis is causing beef online – sacrificed on the altar of engagement – and people are loving it.

How a video about a remote Scottish castle made me want to get off the sofa, buy a very expensive train ticket and travel for 8 hours to Scotland.

Content creators are stealing museums’ lunches, so the National Gallery invited them for a picnic.

Blenheim Palace traumatise some old ladies with a headless horseman.

Historic Royal Palaces are providing the cozy content we yearn for.

When you work in museums, it’s easy to take the magic for granted. Permanent displays imply a static, decided story – while behind the scenes that story is being built on, challenged and adapted as new information and research comes to light. If you’re lucky, some of that new knowledge is included the next time […]

A lot of people are envious of big museums. They actually have staff. Some of them have dedicated video producers. David Attenborough is on speed dial. But what you don’t see is the institutional inertia and bureaucracy, as well as the politics of Getting Anything Done which might put the institution at the slightest of […]

Welcome to Content of the Week, where I choose the Content that Contented me the most and talk about why it’s good Content. My subjective criteria for good content is: I will also ask the people who did the content why they did it. Sometimes they will not respond to my emails. I will then […]

As the hot priest in Fleabag said, “[Social media] is awful. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do […]