Month: April 2018

  • Economist – Shared Article ‘Unmarked’

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA popular refrain is that “the user is the product” when speaking of networks like Facebook and this refrain should not be valid. The user should be seen as the primary investor. We invest our time, we invest our social network and we invest our attention. We invest anything from minutes a…

  • Mewe, pronounced Mais Ouais. πŸ˜‰

    Reading Time: 2 minutesMewe is like all other social networks were in their early days. In the early days it’s all about building a community, it’s all about privacy and it’s all about putting the user above commercial interests. Several years down the line they often shift towards trying to survive and even thrive if…

  • The Pleasure of Slow Motion

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast weekend I watched hours worth of slow motion videos because I enjoy them. I also watched them because I was fighting one of the worst colds I've had in years. Slow motion videos are great because what is invisible to the eye, and hard to see in normal speed videos becomes…

  • Migrating Away From Facebook

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen we first joined Facebook it was filled with chronological timelines kept active by university friends. At that time algorithms did not affect what we saw or how frequently and there was a sense of community. In the last two or three weeks we have heard a lot about Cambridge Analytica and…

  • Let down by the DJI Go 4 Android app

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few months ago, before the winter months came I was happilly flying the drone up to four times a day. At the time I was running their old app and it worked flawlessly. You turned on the remote, turned on the drone and then you connected to the wifi hotpot…