a blog about information
A whole generation of people grew up in the belief that using the C-word in public was just not done. So they avoided doing so. A good thing. At the same time, unrelated to the original C-word, they’ve managed to obscure and obfuscate a number of other C-words. Not a good thing. This post is … Continue reading “The C-word: A Saturday night meander”
There has been a lot of debate as a result of recent announcements about Goldman Sachs investing $450m in Facebook at a valuation of $50bn, and planning to raise another $1.5bn at the same valuation, apparently by attracting wealthy private investors into a special purpose vehicle at high speed. Much of the debate is about … Continue reading “The new new telco”
[Note: this is a follow-up to my post a few days introducing the theme of un-nationalness.] Krosno Odrzanskie, Poland. Dakar, Senegal. Greenwich, London. Uzice, Serbia. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cardiff, Wales. Praia, Cape Verde. Edinburgh, Scotland. Derry, Northern Ireland. Blaegoevgrad, Bulgaria. Guadalajara, Mexico. These are the birthplaces of the 11 who took the field in … Continue reading “Thinking more about un-nationalness”
There I was, quietly reading last week’s Economist, and I came across this article on UK telephone calling habits, drawing from MIT’s Senseable City Lab research on the subject. Its core finding? Calling habits tend to reflect cultural/political boundaries. While I’d been aware of the study, I hadn’t seen this particular representation of the data. … Continue reading “gently musing about keeping secrets and trust and privacy”
You’ll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it’s gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It’s like you feel homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist. Maybe it’s like this rite of passage, you know. You won’t ever have this feeling again … Continue reading “Thinking about social objects”