Posts tagged with 'Social media'

November 28, 2024

X is tanking, Reddit is rising, and other tidbits from Ofcom

Ofcom have released their Online Nation 2024 report. And it turns out people are using the internet in ways.

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November 15, 2024

Content of the week #10: A love letter to Facebook Groups

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

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November 8, 2024

Content of the week #9: HIPPOS

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

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November 1, 2024

Content of the Week #8: Scotch Mist

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.

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October 25, 2024

Content of the Week #7: 200 Creators

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

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October 18, 2024

Content of the Week #6: Headless Horseman

Blenheim Palace traumatise some old ladies with a headless horseman.

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October 4, 2024

Content of the Week #4: Cozy

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

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September 27, 2024

Content of the week #3: Framing

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 […]

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September 20, 2024

Content of the week #2: Dirty birds

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 […]

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September 12, 2024

Content of the Week #1

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 […]

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