I’m always annoyed when I get on a train and realise the only place with seats left is the quiet carriage. It’s the complete opposite of the old smoking carriages where, if you could survive the smoke, there were all… Continue Reading
David Kesmodel of the Wall Street Journal Online writes today about the growing number of American websites where patients post reviews, often anonymously, about the medical care they’ve received: Doctors have long accepted that their patients share opinions about the… Continue Reading
At the start of 2005, Wired magazine enthusiastically featured Yahoo [ The Ungoogle (Yes, Yahoo!) 13.03], the forgotten internet powerhouse. Most people think Yahoo is just a big index of the internet but it’s other services, such as YahooGroups (which… Continue Reading
According to BBC News Online Salon Magazine has hung a for sale sign on The Well , the 4000 member community it bought in 1999 for $5 million (£2.75 m). [note: the following comment is my own] In it’s filing… Continue Reading
In an article for BBC News Online, technology analyst Bill Thompson enthuses about all the new services using the Google Maps API but points out, and rightly so, that these services rely upon the goodwill of Google for their existence.… Continue Reading
Last November I moved into a house with a huge apple tree, full of over-ripe and rotting fruit. Not only did it make a mess of my garden, but it also seemed quite wasteful. Fallen Fruit is a Los Angeles… Continue Reading
Extreme Democracy, edited by Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe Extreme democracy, taking a cue from the recent evolution of software development towards a practice known as "extreme programming," anticipates a politics based on lowered friction in communication that increases the… Continue Reading
WIRELESS UTOPIAS O5 – An Open Future for Spectrum? Cybersalon and Open Spectrum UK host the second event in their Wireless Utopias series – a unique debate on the future of wireless communications and the strategic prospects for utilising the… Continue Reading
I still get a lot of people emailing to ask about submitting articles for Cybersociology, the webzine I edited from 1997 to late 1999. I’ve been thinking of reviving the project, maybe as some sort of group blog with a… Continue Reading
It’s election day and many people will be looking for information as they make last minute decisions on how, or even if, to cast their vote. My policy as moderator/owner of the Cybersociology email list has always been to avoid… Continue Reading