Online Communities | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:14:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 The Ring of Gyges and the cat’s backside https://joepritchard.me.uk/2015/10/the-ring-of-gyges/ Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1573 The Ring of Gyges is a magic ring discussed by the philosopher Plato in his Republic. It granted the wearer the gift of invisibility, and was used by plato to explore what would happen if an intelligent,  moral and upstanding man were to be given this gift.  After all, he’d be able to go anywhere, […]

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]]> And Facebook carries on downwards…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/05/and-facebook-carries-on-downwards/ Wed, 23 May 2012 07:25:14 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1499 In my last post I questioned the value given to Facebook in their IPO.  It became clear at the close of first day trading that things hadn’t gone according to plan; the usual ‘Day One Spike’ associated with high profile technology IPOs just didn’t happen, and I have a feeling that the only reason that […]

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]]> The obligatory Facebook IPO post….or…Hey! Zuckerberg! You’re my bitch! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/05/the-obligatory-facebook-ipo-post-or-hey-zuckerberg-youre-my-bitch/ Sat, 19 May 2012 08:33:35 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1487 Well, despite the state of the world economy, Facebook finally managed it’s IPO today and ended the day at roughly the same level as it launched at, having had a high point of about $42 and a start point of $38.  Now, when I were a lad we did IPOs differently – take the VA […]

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]]> If it ain’t on your machine, it ain’t yours. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/12/if-it-aint-on-your-machine-it-aint-yours/ Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:14:20 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1282 Yesterday I found out that Yahoo had pulled the plug on the Delicious application, amongst a few other APIs and services.  There will no doubt now be a spate of articles about how to move your content from these applications to somewhere else, and it may be that new services spring up out of the […]

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]]> Social Media and the mob https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/03/social-media-and-the-mob/ Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:53:01 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1019 One of my favourite films is ‘The Fisher King’ – one of the most haunting scenes in it is where Radio ‘Shock Jock’ Jack Lucas repeats the words ‘Forgive me’ from a TV script he is hoping to star in, whilst, unbeknown to him, thoughtless comments made by himon his radio show have driven a […]

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]]> Your email address CAN be harvested from Facebook…a heads up! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/03/your-email-address-can-be-harvested-from-facebook-a-heads-up/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:13:18 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=917 Or…yet another reason to watch who you befriend…. Facebook attempts to be what’s known in the online world as a ‘Closed Garden’ – interactions with the rest of the Internet are restricted somewhat to make the user experience better…or to keep you in the loving arms of Facebook, depending on how cynical you are.  One […]

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]]> Facebook friends limited to 150 by the brain? https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/facebook-friends-limited-to-150-by-the-brain/ Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:10:07 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=670 As anyone who’s ever heard me rant about the ‘numbers game’ side of networking – especially on sites such as Ecademy, Linked in or Facebook – will testify, I’m a great believer in quality rather than quantity, and until the software on such sites can do more for me than it currently does in terms […]

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]]> The dumbing down of Twitter starts here? https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/the-dumbing-down-of-twitter-starts-here/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:40:03 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=633 I’ll admit it.  Deep within me is a snob.  As far as I’m concerned, the online world started heading down hill when you no longer had to know how to install a full TCP/IP stack to use the Internet.  Most online discussion forums should, in my opinion, have an intelligence test before you’re allowed to […]

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]]> Crazy, obscene or good investment? https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/crazy-obscene-or-good-investment/ Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:41:14 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=517 Every now and again I come across something online that leaves me staggered, infuriated and thoughtful in reasonably equal measures.  The other day I encountered this little gem – a chap has spent $330,000 on a ‘virtual space station’ in an online computer game.  Yep, that’s right – a third of a million dollars on […]

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]]> The Social Media Numbers Game https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/the-social-media-numbers-game/ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:08:33 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=507 I’m old enough to have used an address book and still have a Rolodex on the phone table.  When I actually sit down and think about the people with whom I have reasonably regular ‘quality’ contact in a 3 month period, either electronically or face to face, it probably amounts to no more than a […]

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