I’ve just finished reading an interesting post by Mike Loukides on the O’Reilly Radar titled “The End Of Social”. Quite an interesting piece that questions the value of the amount of automated data that is broadcast to us across social channels every day (Spotify, Foursquare etc, etc). The basic premiss is that information broadcast to us is [...]
It’s occurred to me that it may be entirely possible, that if we’re all living in a simulation as some suggest. The current poor state of the world economy, weather, recent natural disasters etc may entirely be down to my long running poor frame of mind. 2011 has been an extremely stressful time, moving house, [...]
Well we didn’t see this coming did we? HP have announced that they are going to be (retiring) releasing the Palm WebOS into the Open Source community. The detail of this announcement however is still unclear, for example, how will the patents be managed, what bit’s will be included in the open source package and [...]
I had the pleasure of attending the London chapter of the Creative Mornings series of talks this morning. The speaker was the ever interesting (and wow very pregnant with twins) Beeker Northam from the agency Denstu London. I’ve been following Beeker and her team closely for the last 18 months or so as they as a [...]
That was the title of a recent BBC News article about the current lack of interest in Computer Science among UK students. It’s also the slogan of a new campaign aimed at getting school kids interested in computer science and programming. Well I don’t know about you but I can’t think of a worse slogan [...]