Tristan Hotham

Permanent campaigning and Brexit

The USP of social media as a permanent tool is finally being realised by both Labour and the Tories. Given our hyper-political situation due to Brexit, I expect this Christmas period to be one of a battleground online. The @Conservatives just launched 71 new Brexit ads focusing on @jeremycorbyn and the possibility of a second…

Tristan Hotham

December 10, 2018

Politics

Is Facebook Starting A War On Knowledge?

Tristan Hotham

November 2, 2018

Data Access, Facebook, Politics, Research, Social Media

Cleggmania 2.0 – Facebook has hired the ex-deputy prime minister and former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg as their head of global affairs and communications.

Akin to the shift from Web 1.0 to 2.0, Clegg like the web has reinvented himself. Today he is embarking on a new journey to be the go-between for a mega corporation and fractious mega governments. It is a genuine challenge and a job that is difficult to define, however although problematic, Clegg has a…

Tristan Hotham

October 25, 2018

Social Media

Kodachrome magnificence

Tristan Hotham

October 22, 2018

Other interests

WW1 Trucks and Logistics and Trucker Heroism

There is great heroism in non front line tasks – take this story upon Mr Reginald Horace Northcote from WW2. Via- https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/90/a3228590.shtml My Father was in Italy during the war as a driver with the North Devon Yeomanry and was attached to the British Fourth Division. He saw the bombing of Monte Cassino and entered Rome…

Tristan Hotham

October 22, 2018

Other interests