Joe's Jottings

Facebook would like you to share even more....

· facebook, privacy, personal-stuff, privacy-issues, technology

There's an episode of 'The Simpsons' in which Lisa sets out to determine whether a hamster or Bart is the more intelligent for a school science project.  She does this by applying electric shocks to t…

You may have missed this...the day China pulled the plug.

· censorship, civil-disobedience, civil-liberties, facebook, routing-failure, twitter, politics, privacy-issues, technology

You might have missed this.  I certainly did - but then again for the last week or two I've been running around like the proverbial 'blue arsed fly' trying to juggle a variety of personal, professiona…

The Birth of a Brand

· hillsborough, community-building, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff

As some of you may know, I'm on the Board of the Hillsborough Forum, a group that works for the economic regeneration of the Hillsborough area of Sheffield, and also coordinates other activities in th…

Chrome - the prissy Maiden Aunt of browsers....

· chrome, javascript, software-development, technology

I'm currently involved in developing a web application of moderate complexity using Ext to provide a 'Web 2.0' front end on a PHP/mySQL application.  We've endeavoured to make it work across a range o…

I sometimes wonder....

· spirituality, christianity, personal-development, personal-stuff, philosophy, psychology

As some of you will know, I'm what's best described as an (occasionally) practising Christian.  Just to get the joke out of the way early, I'll keep practising and one day I hope to get it right!  Yes…

All your personal info belongs to...some web site or other?

· personal-stuff, privacy-issues, technology

This is an interesting little article about a new product from Mozilla Labs for Firefox- it allows you to grab tour personal contact data from various web services and sources, and then keep it in a r…

Facebook user hypocrisy or common sense?

· facebook, privacy, social-media, twitter, blogs-and-blogging, personal-stuff

I came across this article in my Twitstream today about how young professionals are changing their name and doing other things to camoflage their presence on Facebook and other social networking sites…

New Media, Old Manners

· personal-development, personal-stuff, privacy-issues, psychology, technology

This post is based on some comments I made on another blog recently - dealing with the question of whether using Social media turns us in to rude bumpkins.  Whilst it's true that the decision to parti…

Facebook and the panic button....

· censorship, civil-liberties, privacy, personal-stuff, politics, privacy-issues, technology, the-media

Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a 'Panic Butto…