Colin Walker

"I always prefer full feed but, having been the victim of RSS scraping myself a number of times (and it seems to be increasing), I can certainly understand the frustration. I've been lucky that I've managed to get a number of sites to stop publishing my stuff but the truly automated sites aren't going to care about takedown notices etc. - they'll just throw up another site if the current one gets removed." - Colin Walker

"This is something that will improve the more you use Twitter. I've not been a very heavy user lately so I think it's having some problems with relevance but that should improve if I start to tweet and interact more. I've been saying for almost a year that I can envisage #discover becoming the default view for Twitter as we continue to use an increasingly visual web. Twitter Cards make a lot of sense in this scenario." - Colin Walker

"I received my invitation last week and have been excited about this since launch. (I've not felt compelled to contribute yet) I wrote a while back that it is part of a paradigm shift in social to get away from "who" and on to "what" - the subject not the author - but wonder if the ego-fuelled content creators are ready for it and willing to give up a sense of ownership to their contributions." - Colin Walker

"It's not always the case but can business take the risk?" - Colin Walker

"Let's face it, if you're rich then you're most likely successful and, therefore, likely to command a lot of influence. You do not want this kind of person bad mouthing your business as they invariably have large followings who will try to ingratiate themselves and jump on any bandwagon that person rolls out in front of them." - Colin Walker

"I am reading up on network science and initial impressions are ringing a number of bells. It is also easy to see how Facebook has made a lot of decisions about how the network functions based on the general principles." - Colin Walker

"Here you go: http://colinwalker.me.uk/the-3... It's an embedded PDF but you can also download it should you wish." - Colin Walker

"Must admit it's not something I've specifically looked into. Will have to do so. I just have an idea of how I envision things ;) Off to do some research." - Colin Walker

"Great speech, by the way." - Colin Walker

"Geoff, Social influence scoring is a real bug bear of mine and I maintain that an external agency is not capable of accurately measuring it due to only having public data. The data host would be in the best position (be it Google, Twitter, FB etc.) as they can monitor both private and public activity as well as accurately measure additional factors like click-throughs to help determine who is driving traffic rather than "soft influence" of just likes and +1s. I wrote a proposal/essay a while back called the 3 R's of Influence which states that influence is a composite of reach, reputation and relevance. The current activity model is ridiculous and does not give any true indication. Relevance is a big issue, as you state, and I defined it as trust + interest + location + platform. Timing is obviously a major factor. Identity and context also plays a part. Who are we and why are we influential? Currently we are graded the same regardless of whether we are a content creator or curator -..." - Colin Walker