February 2010
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Thought Shower: Is the web a democracy or a...
After a pub conversation the other night where various parties were espousing their views on the web and its democratic nature I argued that the web isn’t democratic at all, that in fact it’s meritocratic. This seemed to hold up for about a minute before realising it’s actually neither, rather somewhere between the two. In fact its characteristics are more than that and unique...
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All About Chatroulette
Heard of Chatroulette? If not, you undoubtedly will very soon. It’s the first big internet craze to come to prominence in 2010 and it’s a surprising one.
To the girl in this screengrab - I’m sure you’ll never read this, but sorry for using your image… tho srsly - how could I resist using this one amongst all the men with hungry looks on their shady faces.
What...
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“Each morning when you look at the internet it has changed from what it was...”
– From a forthcoming blog post on the ‘webocracy’.
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Google Buzz - Review
Phew, so the hype following yet another Google product release is starting to settle. Having had a good play with it on my iPhone here are some initial thoughts:
The initial experience of entering buzz.google.com into your iPhone browser is good. Like all iPhone versions of Google’s key products it’s a tad slow to load but when it does you’re immediately prompted to add Buzz...
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The internet is full of rubbish...?
In a charity shop recently I overheard a conversation involving a scruffy internet-phobic man in his fifties, whose ambivelence towards modernity clearly extended to hot water and shower gel. He said that trying to wade through the abyss of crap on the internet was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I desperately wanted to sidle up to him and suggest that if every piece of hay in that...
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Vodafone's Twitter Account Hijacked With Obscenity
‘About an hour ago’ Vodafone UK’s corporate Twitter account sent out the message “@VodafoneUK: is fed up of dirty homo’s and is going after beaver”. They deleted the tweet shortly afterwards and have spent the last hour sending out a constant stream of apologies insisting that they weren’t hacked but that a member of staff breached protocol and sent out...
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Office worker caught looking at porn on national...
Yes, really. In a live TV news interview from his office floor, Martin Lakos of Australian bank Macquarie happily gives some well-delivered thoughts on economical issues whilst unbeknownst to him a fellow banker coyly switches between his email inbox and photos of nude and partially nude ladies.
I mean, who hasn’t? Nothing wrong with that, right? Just not when there’s a sodding news...
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Top 9 Songs For Geeks
Ok, so I’m a geek, I came to terms with the unavoidable fact around about the same time that it became cool to be a geek. Until then I soldered bits of old radios together and kept a diary in the form of C64 code (stored on a cassette tape!) in the clandestine safety of my bedroom. Now those facts are the sort of things I’m happy to boast to the world about. And I have a soundtrack as...