Google knows all about you. Yeah right, you know this, but do you know how much? It knows how many times you’ve been rick-rolled (YouTube), it knows that you have an unhealthy obsession with Gogol (Google Books), that you spend your working day flicking between 4Chan and textsfromlastnight (Chrome) and that you don’t read any [...]
I’ve always been a big believer in having individual communities for individual interests, yet I’ve always maintained quite a homogenous collection of networks. In fact ask any of my Wolfstar employees and any one of them could name a time when I stood up and declared “I only have my own self, split across multiple [...]
The semantic web is quickly becoming another one of those phrases that over eager digital comms people throw around to sound smart. That’s not to say that it’s not going to be a seismic shift in how we access data and use the internet, it’s more to say that many, many people don’t understand it. [...]
I thought you might like this, it shows how the whole world accesses the internet using their mobile. And it’s from the ever-impressive iCrossing. Word up.
Politics is a sticky issue for me. I have massive left/right internal conflicts, but tend to take a libertarian view of the world. Sometimes borderline anarchistic, but not in a bad way, in the best way. I feel like I had to explain my stance before I begin to write what I’m about to write… [...]
Bit obscure, but stay with me.
So modern communication is killing the literary art form, eh (I heard someone say it on Radio Four)? You think that email has ruined the handwritten letter and text message abbreviations are destroying our wonderful language? It hasn’t.