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  • The iPhone, Digital Minimalism, and Social Media

    The iPhone, Digital Minimalism, and Social Media

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I was at university the second time, as a mature student I estimated that my social network was around 600 people deep. In light of this it seems absurd that I hooked on to Facebook and Twitter at the same time. Why would it make sense to hook on to both…

  • On Desktops, Smartphones and Volunteering

    On Desktops, Smartphones and Volunteering

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesYet another article has been written about how smartphones are a trap we built for ourselves by VOX. The article is paywalled so I didn’t read it but it’s worth commenting on the headline. This weekend I was in Divonne volunteering at the Triathlon de Divonne and during this time I was…

  • On Technological Literacy of Parents

    On Technological Literacy of Parents

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesYet again I see an article about children being banned from using mobile phones before they are thirteen years of age and once again I find myself asking, “but what if parents had the required digital literacy to help children and teens?” and “What if teachers had that digital literacy too?” Ireland…

  • On the Importance of Media Literacy in the Smartphone Era

    On the Importance of Media Literacy in the Smartphone Era

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesWithin the last two weeks children have headed back to schools. As a consequence of this schools, towns, villages, and ‘states’ are banning mobile phones for children and teenagers. In theory this is a fantastic, and simple solution. In practice this is failing society. Plenty of adults, from my generation, and younger,…

  • Digital Sovereignty and I

    Digital Sovereignty and I

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI want to start by saying that I hate using the word sovereignty because I think it has right wing baggage. Having said this it is the term often used by Infomaniak and others and it helps shorten the explanation. Infomaniak, like Proton, and many other European solutions provide us with the…

  • Wearing a Casio 168 For the First Time in Decades

    Wearing a Casio 168 For the First Time in Decades

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor years I have worn increasingly complex watches. I went from a Suunto Vector to a Suunto D9 via a Suunto Ambit 2-3 Spartan and more. Eventually I have been wearing a Garmin Instinct Solar and an Apple Watch SE. For most of this time I was happy to wear increasingly advanced…

  • Digital television in the UK

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute1.1 The three months to the end of December 2006 (Q4) saw over 1,000,000 net household conversions to digital television (DTV) in the UK, following on from 800,000 additions in the previous Q3. Growth was driven by another strong quarter for digital terrestrial television (DTT), with total sales of DTT equipment…