Posted in blogs, charity, climate, columnists, communication, diary, dickheads, editing, environment, experience, idiom, instant_messaging, journalism, language, location, loyalty, media, nu-media, opinion, parties, rants, research, society, spelling, syntax, technology, understanding, wisdom_of_groups on February 18th, 2009 1 Comment »
I used to love The Register. It stood up for digital rights, stuck the knife into governmental IT projects, shone the light on ID cards and gave due attention to the largely pointless and wasteful intrusions of technology in the form of CCTV or the database state. But for the past twelve months or so, [...]
Posted in amerika, art, blogs, cliques, election, enmity, far_right, humour, journalism, lies, media, nu-media, politics, research, society, truth, understanding, wisdom_of_groups on October 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Via Rachel North, I present the return of the most annoying people ever to grace drinks advertising, the Wassup crowd. Don’t click away: it’s worth watching as far as one of them trying to hang himself:
I envisage a followup video based on the Bud-Weis-Er frogs, with a take-your-pick permutation of high-up Republicans taking [...]
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Microsoft demonstrably do not understand the web in 2008. Nor do they appreciate that most decent programmers want at least to have access to a command line and an intuitive, syntactically rich, verbal way of coding; they find bizarre, flashy graphical interfaces between them and their projects to be on the whole intrusive and unnecessary. [...]
hatmandu is a bit more scathing of last night’s open-mic event than I would wish to be. Certainly the attendance was rather low, although only half of it consisted of people we directly knew, so there were some newcomers. And Mew and Wooster were crisp and sweet as a dew-covered pippin, despite the appalling fuzz [...]
Anyone coming to the open mic tomorrow, feel free to express your love on Upcoming Not essential or binding.
Anyone who wants to do a stint at the open mic tomorrow: come along!
Anyone who wants me to do a particular item as a warm-up, either from here or from another personal source, feel free to suggest [...]
Posted in blogs, cliques, crime, dickheads, journalism, media, nu-media, opinion, research, society, understanding, webrings, wisdom_of_groups on February 10th, 2008 5 Comments »
I posted some time ago about the chilling effect on free speech of rather too freely bandied-about writs. In doing so I made a Z-list contribution to a nascent webring in support of those on the receiving end of those legal letters. it was pleasing to see that they heavy-handedly sowed the seeds of their [...]
Posted in dickheads, employment, experience, love, media, nu-media, occupation, opinion, rants, seeking, wisdom_of_groups on January 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve had another close encounter with a carthorse. Yes, my dear friend Ron from Ashton Carthorse rang me again, but I just couldn’t get to the mobile in time.
You know how it is with old buddies: he was going to leave a quick message on my answerphone, but he couldn’t resist having a bit [...]
Posted in blogs, cliques, crime, dickheads, journalism, media, nu-media, opinion, research, society, understanding, wisdom_of_groups on September 28th, 2007 No Comments »
For those of you not following the goings-on of the British politico-blogging scene (and I’m aware my audience isn’t as interested as I am), Arsenal part-owner Alisher Usmanov has hired lawyers Schillings to threaten Craig Murray’s website into nonexistence.
It’s worth reading the Indymedia article on Usmanov, cited right there at the top, and his [...]
Posted in cliques, experience, language, media, neologisms, nu-media, overheard, phonetics, society, wisdom_of_groups on September 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Taking the temperature of the waters of our networked youth, I find that people are very much cooling on Facebook. But tomorrow’s hot prospect, if the conversations which K. eavesdrops on when on the bus to Oxford provide any kind of useful information on which to extrapolate, is Bebo.
Except, being styüd’nts or similar, they [...]
