Tag Archives: Twitter
Wk31: Wait A Minute Mr Postman – The Problem With Email
Have you ever sat in a corporate seminar that taught you how to email? I have. Many times. One time, the instructor told us this: that emails are legally binding documents, like mail. And should be treated like mail. Like legal documents. This is, of course, bullshit. Email is like language itself. We, the people, […]
Wk23: Close Your Eyes – the flagging power of advertising and clickthroughs
Is anyone else worried that there might not be enough advertising money to fund the internet? By all accounts, the online market is STILL growing. Yet, right now, I am already sick of advertising covering just about everything I see online. Is it only going to get worse? Be it apps, social networks or websites, […]
Wk13: Lost In Translation – The Treachery Of English
I consider myself, pretentiously, an international citizen. I speak a couple of languages and I’m learning another. That, coupled with travel has made me aware of what I call the “Treachery of English”. Why is technology so inherently English? In the futuristic TV show Firefly, everyone speaks the only two languages that are left – […]
Wk 12: I’m So Tired – Digital fatigue and retirement
When I was young, I would program the VCR for my family home. I don’t think this was a rare occurrence. Most kids I know were better than their parents at it. They were old and didn’t understand how these new machines work. Years later, I realised that I didn’t know how to tune a […]
Wk9: The Hardest Button to Button – Reinventing the keyboard.
In the last decade, almost everything we’ve known about computers has changed. But the humble keyboard remains pretty much the same (and in some ways worse). Maybe it’s time to have a think about it from scratch. – The layout of a keyboard has pretty much stayed steady from typewriter days. Big tall buttons in […]
Wk7: The real second life – Digital data after you die.
Much like pop music in the 60s, no one was quite sure how long this internet fad would last when it started. Now – as we live our most of our lives online – there are big questions to be asked. The biggest one is this: What happens to all our digital data once we […]
Wk6: Reading Up on Digital Text
The digital age has changed the way we perceive the world on all levels – especially the small ones. In recent years, the rise of live updating (or live-blogging) using tech like Twitter has become the fashion. But isn’t it all a little, um, upside down? Take Gizmodo’s recent Verizon iPhone live blogging event (link). […]
We Follow: Finally making sense of Twitter
Wefollow.com finally does what Twitter itself should do – make sense of all the information it’s holding. It’s essentially a Twitter directory – neatly tagged and easy to use. Almost two months ago, we crawled through Twitter to see who the biggest music stars on Twitter were. We pretty much had to guess and check. […]
Aerosmith – Lotteries and Imposters
We get pretty excited when we think about Aerosmith. Definitely one of the most decadent bands of all time, they turned it around in the 80s, cleaning up and became one of the biggest rock bands in the world – a promptly stayed there. It was the first sign that these louts had some balls […]
5 music tips for Twitter's founders
Billboard published a piece by Twitter founder Biz Stone. In it, Stone gives musicians and bands five tips to make Twitter more effective. We can swallow the arrogance of this (bands have been dealing with fans all their lives) – but we agree that there is something very frustrating about being a music fan on […]
