Archive for April, 2010
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Dream it. Build It.
Dream It. Print It. [This is also on the BBC News website, athttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10089419.stm ]
Imagine a school where a student could sketch out an idea for new design of bicycle and not only draw it in 3-D using a computer-aided design package but actually create a scale-model and test it out, using inexpensive materials and [...]
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Facebook Privacy Disaster. Not.
In a shocking development Facebook has yet again stripped away the last veil of privacy from its hundreds of millions of users by exposing their interest in controversial topics, religious affiliation and vampire tendencies to the scrutiny of marketers, potential employers and anyone else who cares to take an interest.
That, at least, would be the [...]
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Power to the People
[This is also on the BBC News website at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8618290.stm]
With the Digital Economy Act now law, a digital election taking place around us, and more media coverage of Apple’s latest shiny electronic toy than anyone could read in a lifetime the sense that the world belongs to the wired can sometimes seem overwhelming.
One [...]
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Who is Watching You?
Surveillance and social constructivism: or why being watched is dangerous for us all
There is a pervasive myth that each individual human possesses a ‘personality’, a collection of behaviours, instincts, beliefs and other characteristics that persist over time and mark each of us as somehow distinguishable from and separate from each other.
It is a comforting myth, one that [...]
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
The iPad as a Blogger’s Tool
I am writing this on my iPad, using the Wordpress app so I can work on a post offline and then update it when I get latched on to a network. I’m still getting used to the onscreen keyboard, which is decent enough apart from having to search for punctuation and the autocorrect – [...]
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
The Day the Web Turned Day-Glo
The Day the Web Turned Day-Glo
[This is also on the BBC News website at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/8598871.stm ]
Anyone with a few minutes to spare online might enjoy visiting Chatroulette, the finest expression of punk mentality from the emerging internet generation that I’ve yet come across. It’s not hard to play, as there are only three [...]
