Category Archives: Technology

Web Science at The Royal Academy

I was lucky that I signed up early and managed to get a seat at The Web Science event at The Royal Society  this week. I’m really glad I was there, although there was a web cast, which will be … Continue reading

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Transforming Audiences 2

I took some time out from writing last week to run a research workshop with the Brighton team at iCrossing UK and then attended and presented at Transforming Audiences 2. It is great to see the commercial world taking their … Continue reading

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Tweetminster

I came across tweetminster a couple of days ago, an idea inspired by?tweet congress?and MP Tom Watson?and?Alberto Nardelli. Follow and Tweet MPs and Parliamentary Candidates, and use the power of Twitter to track UK politics, make your voice heard and … Continue reading

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Musings on Bruno Latour

The web is social. Hmmm, well no, because the web is neither subject nor object. Whilst doing some re-drafting last week I returned to a favourite source of inspiration Lury’s Brands: Logos of the global economy. There is a quote … Continue reading

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Google & DNA

I went to the 1st of the evening media seminars at Brighton University yesterday to hear Dr Kate O’Riordan from Sussex give her paper “The Genome incorporated: Constructing Biodigital Identity’” which “examines the intersection of genome sequencing and digital media practices … Continue reading

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Viva The Information Superhighway

  In between juggling getting back into thesis mode, teaching, supervising undergrad dissertations and general research-arama, I’m slowly, slowly trying to spruce up thinking is the new black. Therefore I’ve been having a poke around the blogosphere over the last … Continue reading

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Stop press! There are lots of people using face book.

Two items have caught my attention in the National media this week. The article in The Sunday Times magazine supplement about face-book, and the feature in the digital planet pod-cast from The World Service on the 29th about an ancient … Continue reading

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Google is the white bread of the mind part 3

Quick bit of procrastination before I get cracking today. I had a hideous day yesterday riddling through Marxs’ theory of general intellect and its’ relationship with the consumer/producer debate. FYI The only way to deal with the likes of Italian … Continue reading

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Stop all the clocks

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the … Continue reading

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Google is the white bread of the mind part 1

Last week I received an invitation to attend Tara Brabazons’ inaugural lecture Google is the Whitebread of the Mind, which I will be going to tomorrow evening. Well, it seems everyone is cockahoot about it. Check out the article in … Continue reading

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