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  • The Modern phonebook

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been trying to categorise websites and how they are used into single words. To this end I have recently started to view facebook as a self actualising phonebook. There are a number of factors which help to contribute to this feeling. One of these is the ability for me…

  • Ijustine and the Fake Steve Jobs

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fake Steve Jobs linked to this video before writing a short commentary.  “Phone Bill Girl and one of her fellow Ph.D. candidates are discussing the work of Roland Barthes and narrative theory in the context of Derrida and Chomsky, with a deftly handled digression into the recurring sexism of Norman Mailer’s…

  • McLuhan’s Thoughts And How They May Relate To Twitter

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    Reading Time: 4 minutes”The simultaneity of electric communication, also characteristic of our nervous system, makes each of us present and accessible to every other person in the world. To a large degree, our co-presence everywhere at once in the electric age is a fact of passive, rather than active, experience. Actively we are more likely…

  • Forums Are The Sandbox Of The Web

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe concept of community is an old one, coming from an evolutionary need for more than one pair of eyes to watch out for predators and other threats. over time the sense of community has evolved and become as great as it is today. There are however pockets of social discord. I…

  • Net Neutrality and The United Kingdom

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSlashdot today quoted Small fries as saying that the Net Neutrality Debate crosses the Atlantic. Analysts believe that ISPs will be forced to place stringent caps on consumers’ internet use and raise prices to curb usage. Attempts have been made by players in the industry to form a united front against the…

  • Operator 11, Your Own Television Show

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesOperator 11 has taken video sharing and webcasting to the next level. Whereas websites such as youtube, google video, myspace, and Facebook all allow you to upload and share videos this one allows you two additional features. The first difference can be spotted when you sign up and arrive at the profile…

  • Twitter IRL

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I went to the London twitter meetup and enjoyed the event. I’m used to going out and hearing people talk about music and other things but here is a community that was talking about technology and internet-based activities. Sizemore and Trusted Places organised the event which took place at the…

  • Wikipedia Reaches 2 Million Articles

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesA recent article has brought to the world’s attention that Wikipedia has over 2 million articles on its website and that’s great. What it means is that thousands of people have taken a little time out of their day to provide what knowledge they had to a global audience through their small…

  • Patent Misuse

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA recent blog post is bringing people’s attention to a group who want to sue Facebook for patent infringement. The problem with this patent is that it is so broad in it’s language that it would include almost all social networking websites. An Information and Application Distribution System (IADS) is disclosed.…

  • Satellite Broadcasting and Broadband

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSatellite broadcasting has been part of daily life for me for over a decade and a half by now. As a result of this, I have watched a vast amount of programs before they were released in the country where I was living. One effect of this has been that rather than…