Thanks to the Wayback machine I found an old post I wrote on kinship and social networks from Ideas Bazaar (2004 vintage). I’m in the midst of writing something about big data, and I’m struck by what, at the time of … Continue reading
Provocative piece from the The New Enquiry, arguing against the idea that a ‘logged on life’ is a distracted one that detracts from the quality of our relationships in ‘real life’: “…we are far from forgetting about the offline; rather … Continue reading
From Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s 1974 collection of essays “The Consciousness Industry; On Literature, Politics and the Media”: The open secret of the new electronic media, the decisive political factor, which has been waiting, suppressed or crippled, for its moment to … Continue reading
Image Courtesy of Michele Gauler's Digital Remains project Three recent things, and something I cam across a few years back collide in what seems like an emergent interest in what happens to our digital lives, profiles and data when we die. … Continue reading
Nice piece in latest Technology Review comparing Facebook to Diaspora, the new minimalist, Dunbarian social network. Facebook is like a casino: garish, crowded, distracting, designed to lure you in and keep you there far longer than you ever intended. (The … Continue reading
A poem by Baron Wormser What a person desires in life is a properly boiled egg.This isn’t as easy as it seems.There must be gas and a stove, the gas requires pipelines, mastodon drills, banks that dispense the lozenge of capital.There must be … Continue reading
I was interested in the following quote from Lynda Gratton from London Business School, in a Lunch with the FT Interview (several weeks ago). Not much more comment to make on it but it feels, intuitively, like a nice way … Continue reading