The cult of Mac
Ever since I got an Apple IIe in the mid-1980’s I’ve been, other than a brief one year excursion to "the darkside", a loyal Apple user. It’s an odd thing, being a mac user. Last week I had a conversation… Continue Reading
Month: April 2005
CFP: CATaC’06 (Estonia)
CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference onCULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC’06) 28 June – 1 July 2006University of Tartu, Estoniahttp://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac Conference theme:Neither Global Village nor Homogenizing Commodification: Diverse Cultural, Ethnic, Gender and Economic Environments Topics of particular interest include… Continue Reading
Blame it on email
Journalists are always asking me to provide quotes about how online dating sites, cyber-affairs, and cybersex are causing increasing rates of marital breakdown. I nearly always respond by pointing out that we don’t blame school parent-teacher groups when the parents… Continue Reading
Cybersonica ’05 – London
CYBERSONICA ’05 – Thursday, 28th April – Sunday, 1st May 2005, Science Museum’s Dana Centre/Encompass @ The Old Truman Brewery/Xfm’s Flo Motion/The Remix Live @ The ICA Cybersonica 05 explores how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians,… Continue Reading
Blogging and Photo-Sharing for Activists
Quite a few charities and NGO’s, for example Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, have recognised that using blogs can help them to get their message across to a new audience. One of the problems that ordinary websites have is… Continue Reading
An apology to the internauts
About this time last year, I was putting the final touches on a presentation I would later give as the opening presentation of TPSA’s Akademia TP Trendy Przyszłości in Warsaw. It probably wasn’t the most interesting presentation I’ve ever given,… Continue Reading
New free wireless points in St. Albans
This isn’t likely to be relevant to more than a handful of readers so I’ll keep it short. A few weeks ago I blogged about an idea to share my wireless broadband connection with the rest of St. Albans (you… Continue Reading
Blog Law
What legal rights, if any, do bloggers have? This has been quite a hot topic in the blogosphere the past few months. By now just about everyone, including the non-bloggers amongst us, have heard about the Queen of the Sky,… Continue Reading
local e-government expo
The National Projects Programme is staging a coordinated programme of events for local authority officers designed to help you deliver Priority Outcome targets and meet the 2005 electronic service delivery deadline. 20-21 April – London The official local e-gov National… Continue Reading
RE:activism: Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in a new media environment [Conf]
RE:activism: Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in a new media environment Budapest, 14-15 October, 2005 Organised by The Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the Central European University, the Open Society Institute, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the… Continue Reading