Archive for March, 2007
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Building public spaces online
[As ever, this is also published on the BBC News website]
Tila Tequila has over one and a half million contacts on MySpace and a profile filled with pages of her scantily-clad form draped over chairs, cars and poles. Visit her page and you get some audio bubblegum to entertain you – apparently a track from [...]
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Get a (Second) Life
On Thursday I’m taking part in a workshop at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organised as part of the ENTER_UNKNOWN TERRITORIES festival/conference. Working with a team from Bedford Creative Arts we are going to be giving those attending hands-on experience with a range of Web 2.0 tools. The blurb says:
Don’t let the Kids monopolise online [...]
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
I don’t know what time it is..
Woke up this morning and I’ve come downstairs to two computers, a digital radio and a phone, all of which say 0840. I think that they have all automatically skipped forward an hour because DST kicked in this morning, but I can’t be sure. Perhaps it’s 0940 by the clock – I don’t seem to [...]
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Wherever I lay my laptop…
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
I am, it seems, a neo-nomad. Or perhaps a ‘digital bedouin’, if you prefer something that makes the computing connection more obvious.
Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle recently reporter Dan Fost claims that a new generation of IT workers has grown up, people who [...]
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
I’m a ‘neo-nomad’
or perhaps you prefer ‘digital Bedouin’ – both terms used in this San Francisco Chronicle article which claims that
A new breed of worker, fueled by caffeine and using the tools of modern technology, is flourishing in the coffeehouses of San Francisco.
And Cambridge. And Venice. And Delhi. Over the last few years I’ve moved [...]
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Who stands to gain from Wikileaks?
[As ever, you can find this on the BBC News website too]
Wikis, or user-editable websites, are one of the most interesting and potentially empowering technologies available on today’s Internet.
Wikipedia, whatever its flaws, has demonstrated that giving people the freedom to add and update material from within a web browser can provide them with an outlet [...]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Beermat podcast
Mike Southon is an old friend of mine – I used to work at The Instruction Set, the training company he co-founded back in the 1980’s, and we’ve stayed in touch since. These days he spends less time as Mike Fab Gere and more as The Beermat Entrepreneur, and he recently interviewed me for [...]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Talking out loud
I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by Gaurav Sood, who blogs as spincycle, and he’s posted the result – edited to make me sound less rambling and more coherent, I’m pleased to say – for your delectation, delight and mocking commentary…
While technology has become an important part of our social, economic and political [...]
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
My mum
My mum
Originally uploaded by BillT.
My mum died today in Manchester. She’d been ill and infirm for a while, but it is always a shock. I’ll miss her.
Won’t be online very much for the next few days, so phone if you need me urgently.
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
WordPress site hacked… pictures at eleven
Alert or technically astute readers will have noticed that this blog is powered by WordPress, and has been for some time. It’s a powerful, flexible and easy to use platform that has all the features I need from a publishing tool, and I tend to recommend it to friends and projects I’m working on – [...]
