Author: KB
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Slow Down Week…
… is next week. Or whenever you feel like it, right? Technorati: Adbusters | Slow Down
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Love Thy Neighbour… Wirelessly and for free | iPhones and Social Networking II
Following the previous post about some of the deeper issues behind social networking, and with the much hyped release of Apple’s iPhone, I was struck by this piece on Channel 4 news about free mobile calls on wireless. (It reminded me too about a Wired piece on open-source mobile phones, which is great) It seems…
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Before you can love thy neighbour, you’ve got to meet them first… | Social Networking
Which is where Peuplade comes in. (You can read the BBC’s article on it here.) It’s a Parisian social networking site that is helping people to meet their neighbours. Which is great. Sort of. Of course it’s a positive thing that people are meeting up. But it worries me that it has taken the mediation…
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We Like (Gay) Sheep Have Gone Astray?
In today’s Independent there is an interesting piece about gay sheep: For the past five years, a team of researchers at Orgeon State University has been investigating the sexuality of sheep. Early on, they proved what every sheep farmer knows: some 8 per cent of rams are gay. When it comes to sex, these woolly…