Just Another Social Profile Really

So, I was chatting to my friend and former colleague Mark Hadfield today and he was asking me which sites I used to keep up to date with digital & tech news. After listing off a few, he suggested that I should put some of these into a weekly round-up. And, as Mark’s a very [...]

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H.L. Mencken In the run up to this year’s election David Cameron spent a lot of time talking about Big Society (or BS as some have taken to referring to it, apparently without any irony): [...]

For the last few weeks much of the world has been talking about football. With the first ever World Cup on African soil there has certainly been plenty to talk about, whether it’s been the noise made by the vuvuzelas, which has excited and enraged fans in equal measures, the poor showing by most of the major stars, or [...]

A couple of my recent posts have been about the music that made up the soundtrack to the noughties, but obviously a decade is made of more than songs, even for someone as obsessed with music as me. So here’s a random list of the things that I will forever associate with the first ten [...]

I’ve just been sent the rather hilarious image above in an email (it seems to have started here). By now, you’ve probably been sent it too. The reason I’m posting it, other than so that those who haven’t been sent it can have a laugh at the sheer idiocy of the actions depicted, is because [...]

TechCrunch have reported on an announcement by Facebook that it will be making a series of changes to the way in which it presents & mixes content, including an increase in the speed at which the status updates are, well, updated. As TechCrunch report: Facebook is…speeding up the updates that populate the news feeds on [...]

I just saw an interesting message on Facebook asking me if I wanted to help translate it so that people around the world can understand it better. The language they wanted help with? English (UK). I can’t say that I’ve noticed that many instances of Facebook using annoying American spellings for things (and to my [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about it recently, where it is that unquantifiable & innate understanding of the web and what it’s doing to modern life & business. As in, “He really gets it. Let’s hire him”. Rand wrote an interesting post about people who get it and how you should look to identify them [...]

As I mentioned the other day, this weekend saw me give Twitter another try and so far I’ve been liking it. In many ways this has been because this second attempt to get the most well-known micro-blogging platform has coincided with the geek-fest that is the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, which now has a [...]