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Zwift events, a social ride and a race

Nov 18, 2018

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Reading Time: 4 minutesToday I participated in two Zwift events, a social ride and a race. The social ride was one hour of pedalling at a comfortable pace trying to keep to the same speed as the group. Rather than trying to be as fast as the group I was trying to pace myself to…

Social media, loneliness and isolation.

Mar 22, 2015

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richard

in social media, social media living room, social networking, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: 3 minutes”The pathology of social media is all about loneliness” Social media professionals take the weekend off. Twitter users use hashtags so that their content can be found without being followed. Everything is turned towards discoverability rather than commitment and conversation. Social media practitioners know that people aren’t listening attentively so they repeat…

Staring at phones in the rain once again…

Jan 3, 2015

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richard

in fun, social media, social media living room, social networking, travel

Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce again I was out in the rain walking around a city. Once again I was looking downwards and then up. I was also looking around and navigating through a city I have been to before but only for a meal and on my way to another place. I went there for…

The Social Media

Nov 27, 2007

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richard

in social media, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesForget the term new media, it’s passed, it’s gone. Today’s key word is social media. What this term means is the following. Any medium that encourages conversations via new technologies, whether twitter, blogs and podcasts or forums is a social media. It is the idea that authority has disappeared. Rather than be…

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Zwift events, a social ride and a race

Social media, loneliness and isolation.

Staring at phones in the rain once again…

The Social Media