AI. You know, for kids.
This is the second in a series about AI questions that have come up while I’ve been exploring another facet of the topic. In an…
Comic strip – Kids always remind you of the basics
I had permission to interview a very impressive group of girl coders this weekend. As ever, kids teach us so many things. In this case, a…
Time Pieces and the Apple Watch – According to my Dad
Horologist: A person skilled in the practice or theory of horology. A watch or clock maker. My Dad. So, Apple had ‘a thing’ again yesterday. The…
International Women’s Day 2015 – My personal influences
Hello. Get a cup of tea, this is not a short read. It’s (‘was’ depending on when you read this) International Women’s Day. It’s been marked…
We need to talk about your blog…
It’s like listening to a close friend pour out their heart and then try to hard sell you a set of encyclopedias.
A Way in Which Google Glass Won
Let me state first that I am Google agnostic. I worry about data, but hypocritically still use their services for convenience and I spend time thinking…
In which I seek to protect my curiosity
I woke up on December 28th feeling pissy and restless. It’s not usual. I usually wake up feeling sleep-deprived, bearing a deep sense of fear that…
Festive ‘Dead Signal’ Epilogue – Happy Merries!
Dead Signal is what I like to optimistically call my first six-page comic story. You can read it here. For those who celebrate, those who don’t…
In which I make my own six page comic…
Hello! I’ve posted snippets like the one above for a while – it’s fun and gets a few thoughts down in a fun way. The comic…
Bearing witness digitally
There are many ways to die. Most of us hope for somewhere quiet with people we love nearby. Sadly many people in times and places of…
‘STRTP GRLFRND’
I was recently messing about on Quora, the Q&A site, looking at the interesting things people ask and the curious answers that follow. I noticed in…
How radio leaves you breathless
Radio does leave you breathless – maybe that’s a sensational headline, but I promise it’s true in a very literal sense. Working with audio often means…
More cartoon scrawling
To be fair, there are some brilliant PRs and I do love working with them. But just occasionally…actually more commonly than I would hope…something like this…
Following news of the Boston explosions online
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…
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…
Robotics 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…
Code: 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…
Patience, 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.
Bridge 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…
Frilling 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…
Cheers 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…
Thoughts 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…
Ada 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)…
Girls, 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…
Global 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…
“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.…
Crystallization 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…
Citizen 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.…
Indie 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…
A 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…
Tales 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…
South 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…
All 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…
Not 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…
Thought 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.…
Code 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…
“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…
Left 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…
Get 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…
Trying 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…
Weird 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…
On 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 |…
As 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…
Telling 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…
My 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…
“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…
A 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…
There 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…
Bloggers, 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…
Ask 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…
A 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,…
