Am I a twit not to Twitter?
OK....I remember a year or so ago saying i'd never join Facebook, and then making myself look a pudding within a month or so when i started using Facebook to keep me in touch with friends after I stop…
You pays peanuts.....
And you get monkeys. I assume most of us have heard this phrase. It's become almost a mantra with me in my professional life because the last 6 months have exposed me to an interesting aspect of the f…
Everybody Hurts
For various reasons, I started really thinking about the REM song 'Everybody Hurts' today. Just in case you're not au fait with it - here are the lyrics... *When the day is long and the night, the ni…
Live together or die alone
This article in the BBC's online magazinerather intrigued me; basically, are we heading for a dislocated society in which the relatively wealthy live in walled communities whilst the rest of the popul…
Dumbing Down 2.0?
I regularly follow Bill Thompson's columns on Online Issues at the BBC's website - see the Blogroll here for a link to Bill's personal blog - and recently re-read this item which I found very interes…
Computer says no - or, `How I stopped worrying and learnt to love the waste...`
People who know me will be aware of my occasional - and increasingly regular - rants about the lack of joined up thinking that surrounds us in every aspect of life in the UK. I'm currently attempting…
Just a nudge?
I recently read the phrase "Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the straps" on someone's online signature. With a wry smile I came to the conclusion that, Yes, some days it's just too much…
`Viva la Vida` - `All Along The Watchtower` for 2008?
The perennial question of 'What the heck is that all about?' with regard to the lyrics of Bob Dylan's 'All Along The Watchtower' was kicked off last year when a haunting version of the song by Bear Mc…
Attrition vs Shock and Awe in the Online World
Anyone who's spent time in any online communities will be aware of the feuds and fights that take place between users of those communities. Whilst some degree of conflict is inevitable, there always …
Facebook - fool if you think it's over?
I came across two articles today which are related - one informing us that Facebook had finally made it to number 1 in a league of social networking sites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/0…