Category: tech related
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On the challenge of being brief.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBack in 2000 I arrived in the South West of England as an 18 year old who was used to watching 24 minute documentaries on a range of subjects and I wanted to do the same thing. For the course I was doing when I was told that I had to do…
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Social networking and freebase
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs you’re painfully aware by now there are hundreds of social networking websites but none of them have a communal database. If you’re on orkut your data stays there, if you’re on yahoo communities your data is there. All these social networking websites are very similar in what they ask of you…
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Cheapening the user experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are a great diversity of websites out there and each one has it’s own strengths. As a result of this it is not unusual for me to visit twenty to thirty websites on a daily basis, from the likes of twitter, my own website, news sites and more. What this means…
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France leads the way with Freebox HD
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor those who are interested in community video French operator Free is providing one of the most interesting services around at the moment. They are offering you a user generated television channel and the technology to broadcast content live from the comfort of you own home. All you need is a…
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As featured on Operator 11
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter a long but great day of work I came home to do The Twitter Vox show with Loudmouthman and two guests. We were joined by Goldie Katsu and Malburns. We discussed what it’s like to reach 3000 tweets and the conversation moved towards the advantages of using twitter when part…
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The Modern phonebook
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been trying to categorise websites and how they are used into single words. To this end I have recently started to view facebook as a self actualising phonebook. There are a number of factors which help to contribute to this feeling. One of these is the ability for me…
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Ijustine and the Fake Steve Jobs
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fake Steve Jobs linked to this video before writing a short commentary. Â “Phone Bill Girl and one of her fellow Ph.D. candidates are discussing the work of Roland Barthes and narrative theory in the context of Derrida and Chomsky, with a deftly handled digression into the recurring sexism of Norman Mailer’s…
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McLuhan’s Thoughts And How They May Relate To Twitter
Reading Time: 4 minutes”The simultaneity of electric communication, also characteristic of our nervous system, makes each of us present and accessible to every other person in the world. To a large degree, our co-presence everywhere at once in the electric age is a fact of passive, rather than active, experience. Actively we are more likely…
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Forums Are The Sandbox Of The Web
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe concept of community is an old one, coming from an evolutionary need for more than one pair of eyes to watch out for predators and other threats. over time the sense of community has evolved and become as great as it is today. There are however pockets of social discord. I…
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Net Neutrality and The United Kingdom
Reading Time: 2 minutesSlashdot today quoted Small fries as saying that the Net Neutrality Debate crosses the Atlantic. Analysts believe that ISPs will be forced to place stringent caps on consumers’ internet use and raise prices to curb usage. Attempts have been made by players in the industry to form a united front against the…