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Twitter Procession

May 20, 2010

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I’m not normally impressed by Web 2.0 mashups, but there’s something very beguiling about this Twitter procession, something of the human touch in it…HT Jenny Brown. Works best in full screen… click here.

Can Social Networks Finally Make #Socialism Work?

Nov 3, 2009

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Very interesting conversation last night between Steven Johnson – author of brilliant books such as The Ghost Map, Emergence (for which I owe him a huge debt) and The Invention of Air – and Brian Eno – who defies description or categorization. They covered a lot of ground over the evening, but perhaps the best…

UK Election ‘in a few weeks’? | It was until…

May 20, 2009

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Oh dear, things don’t get any better for this calamitous administration. Seems like he didn’t understand how Twitter works – replies are viewable by everyone. The account is now deleted, and we can probably assume that date in the diary has been too. Oops. HT ToryBear via DizzyThinks.

Critiquing Social Networks | Technological Bad Faith

May 14, 2009

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Nic and I have been having some good exchanges recently around issues of our relationship with technology. It’s something that’s prominent in the forthcoming book, but I wanted to introduce a few of the ideas here and hopefully provoke some debate to sharpen my own thoughts. My view is that while we do create tools,…

May 7, 2007

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Don’t get it. Don’t want to. Hope I never will. Ditto any other ‘microblogging’ nonsense. It’s ever-more candyfloss communication in an age of increasingly vacuous relationships. No content:No thanks. Technorati: Blogging | Blogs | microblogging | twitter

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Twitter Procession

Can Social Networks Finally Make #Socialism Work?

UK Election ‘in a few weeks’? | It was until…

Critiquing Social Networks | Technological Bad Faith

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