To the beach

To the beach, To the beach, The sand beneath my feet.
(sung to the tune of The Road by Frank Turner, of course)

And that is what a Cornish ice cream looks like.

This is how I roll

Sushi t-shirt.

Twitter news

This morning I finished my essay, at least to the point where it has everything in it. Tweaks will have to be made no doubt, but I'm pretty pleased thus far. It's been a really interesting topic to write about and so I have enjoyed researching and writing it.

We were given the choice of five essay titles, each quite wide themselves. I chose the title of New News and the area I chose to cover in my essay... or rather the question I set out to answer was: How has technology and social networks enabled news to spread faster and further? Or something along those lines. My essay title, as it stands at the moment is:

How Twitter, and new technology, has enabled news to spread faster than ever before – and to a wider audience.

Although I briefly cover other social networks, Facebook, YouTube etc, I really wanted to focus on Twitter. And that is what I have done.

This is a paragraph early on in the essay, talking about Twitter:

"Twitter users are invited to share what they are doing, “What's happening?”. However, Twitter is also used to share information whether it be interesting facts, humorous video links or breaking news stories. It is the latter that proves to be a huge internet revolution. When a particular story becomes popular it is known as a 'trending topic', grouped by words that are commonly used in the latest tweets. Similarly, #hashtagging is used by users to specify a particular theme. These features make spreading information even easier, and with the possibility to 're-tweet' those messages that a user finds particularly interesting, news stories can spread, not only, faster than ever before but also to a wider audience,
across the world."

Some great TED talks I reference in my essay:
Evan Williams on Listening to Twitter Users
Clay Shirky: How Social Media can make History

And interesting articles:
How Twitter helped to spread information on the Japan earthquake
Six Degrees of Separation
Game Theory
Social media facts

Food Glorious Food

An exhibition at the V&A museum of Childhood - a museum I did not know existed. Small exhibition, but proved useful for looking at the exhibition graphics and layout.

Really nice painted graphics on the walls.

Interactive.

Quotes are always nice.

The colour themed areas were good.

Who would you like to cook a meal for? CAKES.

And then for some favourites from the general Childhood exhibition.

Normally I would find this creepy. The child is creepy, it's doll is hilarious.

Bauhaus dolls house?

I had this.

I think we had one of these too.

Nice spelling things.

My brother had this.

Japanese dolls.

Definitely had this.

Yeah! Wolvy.

Berlin tree earrings

Just looking through some of the more recent photos on my phone, I don't believe this has been shared with the world. My amazing tree earrings bought at Maur Park flea market in Berlin.

A brief visit to Camden Town and a longer stroll of Hampstead Heath

Having a 7 day London train ticket, and only using it for 5 days would have been a crime. So after having yesterday off - I made a good start on my essay, today I headed back to London. The main plan was to go to an exhibition entitled Food Glorious Food at the V&A Museum of Childhood, as I thought it would be useful for my self-initiated project.

A brief trip to an incredibly busy Camden Town.

 

One day I will go to this veggie cafe.

 I actually had falafel today. Not from here, and not in the traditional pitta.

And then, after walking towards Chalk Farm/the Roundhouse and then across to Kentish Town, I left central London for Highgate and Hampstead Heath.

I would rather like to live around here one day... bit expensive 'though. 

Hampstead heath was beautiful. It had a lot or trees.

Do I hear you say Tree Book no2?

The lopsided tree. Always more interesting than a symmetrical tree.

Can you see central London?

Just two weeks ago I was in Berlin, it was no where near this green there.
Well done England.

A tree photograph collection is never the same without an odd looking dead tree.

Oh, to live here...

I think I may be aiming a little high to want to live here...

But they have wonky chimneys.

For exhibition pictures, see next blog post!