HelloSpiders

Homebase blog for a group of sites updated by Will Pollard. The hope is to work out how they link together so people can find the bits of interest.

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

#Hashtags working somewhere #ExeFringe #CamdenFringe

See recent tweets from @will789gb and @wenotno for story so far. For new readers We Don't Know is a radio show on @PhonicFM. Recent phone guest Celia Delaney has now completed her show for the Exeter Fringe and so attention turns to Camden Fringe in August.

Discovered so far that putting #Tag in the title on YouTube works well. It shows up in blue then acts as a search. As of yesterday though on #ExeFringe it only found Celia Delaney and an episode of Worried about Jim. ( #WorriedAboutJim ) .

Today discovery is that #CamdenFringe finds lots more on YouTube. Camden has been going for several years and has several thousand followers on Twitter. No surprise they have a developed YouTube situation. Exeter could crash into something similar. Now looking for links to other video / carrying a hand held camera. Social event at Phoenix tomorrow evening.

Compare #ExeStreetArts and #SmooveTurrell , two events for August.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Is there missing recording Brian Eno on Corbyn on Marr?

On 21 July, this past Sunday the Marr Show had an interviews with Brian Eno . This included a short section in which Eno was asked about current view on Jeremy Corbyn. My guess is that this was edited as broadcast. Possibly Marr was surprised that support for Corbyn continues. Eno did want more clarity on Europe but this was not explored.

I have put the clip on YouTube so you can make your own judgement if it seems a bit short.



Could the BBC make the longer clip available? Would Brian Eno expand in another interview or just post something somewhere? Or might there be speculation? It seems to me that social media offers many new possible formats.

Background

My guess is that there is an assumed narrative from somewhere that support for Corbyn is dropping off. I have not watched Newsnight in a long time but there was an early one just before Glastonbury. This seemed to be confident that there would be no chants of Jeremy Corbyn at Glastonbury as in previous years. The counter evidence of Stormzy performance has got a BBC logo in corner but i have not seen any BBC news coverage post Newsnight on the facts. Links please if it exists somewhere.

Other versions



This from Hastings Labour Party. Not including the bit about Europe. There is a case for further discussion. But notice nothing from the #BBC at this time I can find.




This is the full show.  Ian Duncan Smith and Philip Hammond. Arguably the full range of opinion in the Conservative Party. Check the length of time in both cases. This may be the new BBC idea of balance. but when they do get a pro Corbyn view should it be cut off after two minutes?

The BBC could post their own Brian Eno clips . Or make the outtakes available for bloggers. Not sure what Brian Eno thinks about all this. Links welcome. May end up with each viewer making a guess.

Monday, July 22, 2019

Social media , mostly YouTube and #hashtags as in #ExeFringe #ExeStreetArts #LikeMinds

Expanded tweet sort of post, can run out of space. Needs some explanation as I am pushing things a bit at this time. Exeter has gone a long way with social media. Phonic FM for example had a strong push in June to expand base for Facebook and Twitter. My concern has been to establish #hashtags ahead of events. they are useful to locate various content at any time. But if not well known ahead then variations get used and things get lost. I think print can help to let people know. So I may do a lot of retweets with tags, sorry if this gets boring.

#ExeFringe late July, early August. #ExeStreetArts end of August. #LikeMinds not till October but worth mentioning now as they understand social media. Role of print in the mix / selling tickets can be compared. Print continues but if different forms. Eventually basic info can be communicated with just social media but print needed also for detail such as brochure for Fringe.

I will contribute to Wild Show and @wenotno on @phonicFM during these events. Clips can extend as social media. Not sure how this works but trying things out. PreviouslyI have found that music scene has accepted content marketing / playing samples on radio / whatever you might call it whereas theatre is a bit more careful. Not sure how this works but will explain more in future posts depending on comments.

Monday, July 01, 2019

Expanded tweet around Mode 1 and Mode 2 Knowledge / Learning

Tweets sometimes too short or hard to follow anyway. So here is an explanation of recent  ones from weekend.

Back in April Jo Wolff wrote about new buildings on UK campus in Guardian Education print version. I have exchanged tweets since. My bias is alarm at the student accommodation taking over central Exeter, though I have been convinced in the case of Exeter there probably is unlimited demand for places over the near future.

Recent retweet from Jo Wolff about collapse of one student accommodation scene and remark about MBA s



So then other tweets confirm that there is a level of uni / location where further investment is sound but other places may be problems. I ask again about consequence of education moving online. Jo Wolff thinks this is only competition in subjects such as accounting or programming.




So now gets to where I think needs a blog, too much for a tweet. Mode 1 and Mode 2 knowledge comes from books by Gibbons and others starting with Science. Mode 1 follows Newton, Mode 2 multi disciplined, based in practice. Ideas taken up by social science and business to explore I think how MBA course for example could be presented as possibly closer to Mode 1.  But is seems to have stopped as a flow of publications.

Following a tweet from @Nathanmofomme recently I checked out a video of a lecture that looks at Mode 2 as a way of working now. ( I am not sure it was originally meant as a model. more a way for people who thought of themselves as Mode 1 to explain something else)


I started to use a hashtag - #mode2learning - and this is one thing it found. Seems to me practice situations more about learning than formal knowledge. Something may be codified but there may not be time.

Meanwhile Peter Scott also contributes to Guardian and seems to have not updated anything recently on Mode 2. Also he is very doubtful about the MOOC, other than a statement that he will not write about such things. My guess is that Guardian has a bit of a block about online learning as there is a related discussion about print newspapers.

Anyway, hope this is enough to explain what the tweets are on about. Any comment welcome.

Later a bit more about how the city centre is coping. It just seems out of balance to be building more and more campus on the edge and then turning the centre into a massive dorm area. There must be some sort of knowledge in a city as such. Not sure what to call it.