Almost exactly one year ago I, perhaps foolishly, made a series of predictions for 2009. Let's see how I did.
I said: Arguments between local authorities and their local partners will break out across the England as a result of CAA reporting.
Was I right?
Yes but I can't prove it.
In December, the Government has set up a slightly confusing site which enables you to find out how your local public sector is doing. So far councils seem to be getting the blame for everything. That is not sustainable. Gossip suggests that there are considerable tensions behind closed doors.
I said: There will be a general election in June and Labour will be returned to government with a reduced majority.
Was I right?
No. And no room for obfuscation either.
I said: There will be an amusing range of rubbish and embarrassing forays onto YouTube.
Was I right?
Well I was clearly in a bad mood. There have been a range of experiments with virals and video content. Some have been more successful than others. UK public bodies are still feeling their way with all this stuff. Few of these forays have been ground-breaking but few could fairly be described as I did a year ago.
Well I was clearly in a bad mood. There have been a range of experiments with virals and video content. Some have been more successful than others. UK public bodies are still feeling their way with all this stuff. Few of these forays have been ground-breaking but few could fairly be described as I did a year ago.
I said: Millions of pounds of public investment will be wasted as infrastructure schemes are rushed and poorly planned.
Was I right? Sadly yes.
I said: Facebook will rule the world.
Was I right? Pretty much, even though the media buzz is around twitter, facebook is where the action is. Just by way of example: people spend a lot more time on facebook than on any other site and facebook users share 3 times as many photos as flickr users (which is a dedicated photo sharing site).
I was pretty negative about twitter back then and I'm still ambivalent. I still think the most interesting thing about twitter is where it might lead.
So that's 3.5 out of 5. Despite this I will be publishing my 5 predictions for 2010 very shortly. Call again soon.
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Not bad at all Mr P. I look forward to your predictions for 2010.
PS - a good example of where I think Twitter could lead is here...
http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/
Have you come across anyone looking at other kinds of geographical application that Twitter offers?
Eg for the most hotly anticipated event of 2010... Tweet #votepartyname plus postcode to build up a map of voting intentions leading up to general election. That could be useful - right?
Spoken like a true geographer of course...
Hi Lee
Thanks for stopping by.
I agree the UK snow map really is a very elegant project. The Guardian has implementeda less elegant, but still interesting, mashup using the same stream.
There was an interestingmashup run during the American presidential ballot.It didn't rely on deliberate hashtags and proved that the twitterverse was talking about Obama. I rather like your idea. Maybe you should set it up..?
Apologies for the poor formatting, cold fingers on a Blackberry.
This might be useful
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