Tag: Information society
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(Not) The End Of The World
Some songs arrive and they are so good and timely you can’t work out why they aren’t massive. Even when played on the likes of 6Music, some songs seem to miss the boat, and I usually want to correct this error as much as I can. Max Pope’s (Not) The End Of The World as…
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Joe Orton would be proud
So social bookmarking sites – does anyone still use them? I mean actually ‘bookmark’ stuff? Wondering whether to add the facility here…
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Blogging can kill you
Interesting article about blogging and stress – and the recent stress-related deaths of several professional bloggers. What I find most intriguing about the article is the description of professional bloggers and he sites, and that it’s become in part a digital sweatshop economy, where speed is of the essence. Certainly in the mashup world there…
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Our own Florida?
uh oh – the e-voting part of the Mayoral election bothered me, but with such a close vote is it possible Boris Johnson didn’t win at all? This is the problem with e-voting systems, you cannot easily know as all the votes are counted inside a machine, and the company behind it Indra was involved…