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Google+… Or Google± ? | Technological Inhabitation

Aug 3, 2011

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Technology

Thanks to the various people who popped me Google+ invite… I’ve really not known whether to jump in, and would appreciate any thoughts people have had who have made the switch or tested the water. The obvious issue is this: have Google made it worth it? If you are going to switch, do you do…

Why Go to Festivals When the Music Sounds Sh*t?

Jun 22, 2011

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in City Life, Technology

Interesting piece in The Independent yesterday, asking why people bother going to festivals when the sound quality is crap, there’s mud everywhere, you can’t sleep, and people push and spill beer all over you. I visited Glastonbury once, many years ago now, and left utterly mystified. Why, I wondered at the time, did so many…

The Turing Test Corollary: Can You Prove You Are Human?

Jun 20, 2011

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Technology

Interesting video from the RSA called ‘A Defense of Humanity in the Age of the Computer’. Though the camerawork does look rather like a throwback to the 70s, it has some good angles on the Turing Test. Put simply, you have a keyboard and a display. Questions come up, and you answer them, and…

‘I Believe in God, and the Internet is my Religion’ | The Radical Commons | Marx

Jun 14, 2011

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Emerging Church, Technology, Theology

Thanks to @designbygecko for putting me on to this extraordinary talk by Jim Gilliam at a web conference recently. Jim was brought up a fervent evanglical – and remains so, except that his faith is now truly in the Internet. He has his reasons for his conversion: he’s suffered multiple cancers and had to…

Are Google Guilty of Insider Trading?

Jun 13, 2011

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in News, Technology

I’m currently consulting on a BBC programme to be broadcast in the autumn which is all about the mathematics of everyday life. Not allowed to say any more about it, but there is a section there about how Google can inform hospitals of impending flu epidemics days before they actually hit by tracking the search…

Lament at Pentecost, the Benefits of Drink and the Scourge of Technology

Jun 8, 2011

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in Emerging Church, Politics, Technology, Theology

Was invited to debate with Steve Chalke last night on the topic of ‘the Politics of Pentecost’ – which was designed to think about issues of multiculturalism and inclusion over the Pentecost festival. Steve gave a very interesting opening talk about this, which we then argued over afterwards, drawing in questions from the floor too.…

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