a blog about information
There’s been a lot of commotion on the web about a particular video going viral a few days ago. When I heard about it, my instinct was to do nothing; after all, there was a NSFW warning emblazoned right across it. So I forgot all about it. Then an old friend of mine, Philippa Davis, … Continue reading “Bear necessities”
My thanks to Tochis for the wonderful photograph above. A full twenty-six years after the eponymous year of Orwell’s dystopian novel, we are only just getting used to the idea of Big Brother watching us. For many of us, this sense of being watched seems to have been built around physical constructs, around the usage … Continue reading “Musing about a new kind of literacy”
If you’ve ever been to Calcutta, you will know something about crowds. [My thanks to Accidents Will Happen for the wonderful Calcutta scene above.] As many of you know, I was born there. A teeming city with many millions of people. I spent much of my childhood and youth in a small flat with an … Continue reading “Thinking about privacy and asymmetry”
My thanks to Dominik Hofer for the wonderful photograph shown above Did you ever get the chance to read Blink? In that book, Malcolm Gladwell said something like the following: We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. Now this is something I’ve believed … Continue reading “Musing about learning by doing”
We now have a growing and fascinating array of tools with which to share information with others, “social” tools. Having spent some time recently thinking about why we share (posts here and here), I wanted to spend some time sharing my thoughts with you on the topic of what we share; in a few days’ … Continue reading “What we share: Continuing to look at privacy, sideways”