Oh how we love to be fooled – but not by the foolish
Hello. Scoping about the web this morning and there’s the usual April 1 activity. Nothing so shocking so far – but maybe someone will push the…
Read articleRobotics and science fiction reading
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of comic books and science fiction. It’s been a means of escape and thinking for years that has often…
Read articleCode: Can’t learn my way out of being female
I read AsherWolf’s post this morning about her treatment and the hacker community and it made my heart sink. I don’t even have the skills to…
Read articlePatience, people and virtual spaces
So tonight I’m watching App.net and Facebook, with half an eye on Twitter and fielding some emails. I’m exhausted. Not by the programs running on my machine. Just tired physically.
Read articleBridge reporting and trauma
Hi, For some work with Global Voices I am furthering some ongoing research looking at the possible emergence of PTSD and similar outcomes when bridge reporting…
Read articleFrilling and Pinteresting
Brace yourself for a little ranty-pants session. Pinterest has been howling around my networks like pertinent lolcat lately. I like it, I see it is for…
Read articleCheers to my co-conspiritors. Without whom…
It’s probably come to your attention that I have been working voluntarily with the excellent Global Voices news site in order to present and produce the…
Read articleThoughts from the Arab Bloggers Meeting in Tunis #AB11
It’s taken me forever to get a coherent thought together about being at the Arab Bloggers’ Meeting in Tunisia. I eventually put my finger on it…
Read articleAda Lovelace Day: Rain
Anyone who has met Rain is unlikely to forget her. Part of this Ada Lovelace Day post is about women and STEM (Science, Technology, Maths, Engineering)…
Read articleGirls, girls, girls…
Hi, I think I saw a tumbleweed roll across my pages and as I am currently stuck at home under the weather – it’s a good…
Read articleGlobal Frequency
So something new happened. Some work that I am proud of. I’ve been working for the past few weeks to build something from scratch. It’s been…
Read article“Double dog dare!” – Textiles and QR tech
So. I’m browsin’ online as usual swapping links, jokes and smart-arse comments when a good friend and female tech inspiration sends me a link on Twitter.…
Read articleCrystallization of news online – Gil Scott-Heron
Around one thirty in the morning and a tweet turns up in my stream that says Gil Scott Heron has died. I start playing his records…
Read articleCitizen journalism infrastructure?
It’s been a while, but a couple of things entwined to play around my mind in the last few weeks. I have some questions as usual.…
Read articleIndie news nightly
3am London BST and I should be in bed, asleep. But I’m not. I’m watching a news channel on the internet. It’s not a mainstream channel…
Read articleA Dewey Decimal digital destination
I read ebooks. I have a Kindle reader on my Android tablet and I read books on an iPod. I listen to volumes of audiobooks at…
Read articleTales of the internet
I know there must be hundreds and thousands of tales like this to tell or to read. Our world seems to get so much smaller with…
Read articleSouth by Global Headlines
This year finally I went to the Geek shindig called South by South West in Austin, Texas. I initially stayed in Allen with friends as close…
Read articleAll the same if you are online?
I had a change to sit down and chat with a colleague who is a great digital thinker today. I’d name him but he might get…
Read articleNot so idle chatter
Your conversational skills…. I am making pages of notes on the comments that were left about the thought exercises earlier on this blog. Thank you to…
Read articleThought exercise – part two
Hello again, Thanks to everyone who added a comment and jumped into discussion with me about the thought experiment. This is the other half of it.…
Read articleThought exercise – part one
Hi there, I’ve got something cooking again and I would love a bit of input. Whenever is good if you are willing. The idea starts with…
Read articleCode and destroy
In case you ever wondered about the ranty pants. I buy them in packs of five. I have them on. Let’s go. Would you have been…
Read article“Deep greens and blues are the colours I choose…”
I’m still working on the audio story but taking a little break. It’s going okay, but it needs some air and I’ve been mulling over this…
Read articleLeft to your mobile devices #sfriot
Something happened in San Francisco last night. The Giants won the World Series for starters but also there was a flurry of activity in the Mission…
Read articleGet your freak on
Happy Halloween all. I’ve been indulging in the eve where the grumpier English people I know like to mutter about “Americanisation” and children turn up at…
Read articleTrying to embed Storify
….after three attempts – I am guessing that the embed code from Storify doesn’t work with WordPress.com. If only we could all play nicely together, rather…
Read articleWeird science or web science?
Not so long ago I was fortunately asked to join Bill Thompson and Les Carr to be a twitter chair at the Royal Society for their…
Read articleOn my mind this week…
So I don’t forget – but do chime in if you have thoughts on these words. Trend Customise Push New Popular JK Add to: Facebook |…
Read articleAs a standard….
*Singing*…”All of these things are not like the others…” Standardisation in mobile feels as though it is a long way away. But in technology time seems…
Read articleTelling stories
So, to those who know me – the fact that I am reading another book of essays on citjo will not be a huge surprise. Reading…
Read articleMy hero is the underdog and he’s a natural.
I’m having a stretch here after being away from the blog with various and assorted. Hell – I can’t claim that this is a regular outlet…
Read article“Ideas suppository”
I had an idea, what do you reckon? I have the great fortune to know a great many creative and technically talented people who work with…
Read articleA song for Ada?
So – this morning Ada Lovelace post on-line – feeling chipper and reading some cool blogs about the ladies who do… The video that I attached…
Read articleThere she is
Ada Lovelace day. Ashamed to miss the first round, I vowed to make the pledge on the second. It’s not easy picking a single woman to…
Read articleBloggers, journalists (and not versus)
This is not and will never be the complete picture but it is a round up of thoughts at the moment on bloggers and journalists. I…
Read articleAsk without influence
People who know me (and those who don’t may get the gist), realise quickly that I ask a lot of questions. I guess I fall into…
Read articleA newspaper heart and an online mind
I have chosen heroes through my life, some unconsciously, some for particular reasons, but there is a certain group of characters that I’ve looked up to,…
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Following news of the Boston explosions online
By jemimahknight,
I watched the explosions in Boston unfold tonight as many people online do when there’s news afoot. A habit of many years now when something like…
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