I spent the afternoon at the University of Nottingham’s Horizon centre helping a researcher on the CREATe project explore how authors use social media.
This was a fascinating workshop with lots of discussion of the pitfalls and problems of using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the rest when you are writer trying to reach an audience. Issues up for debate included privacy, keeping work and social stuff separated, dealing with unwanted comments and postings, how to stream different types of updates and coping with the perpetual beta.
Oh, and how to get any writing done when there is social media available.
And, fans of this blog will be pleased to know, there was a decent lunch. It’s been a long time since I had a free lunch.
Tech Lunch 
British Library may foil Tories plan to delete their Internet history
November 13, 2013According to Computer Weekly, the Tories have tried to delete records of their previous speeches from the Internet. Various tricks have been used such as robot blockers. However, they seem to have forgotten that the British Library has been archiving the UK Web since the mid-2000s. You can see snapshots of old Tory party sites here.
Tags:British Library, Computer Weekly, Conservative Party, Web archiving
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