Is Birmingham Happy?
I’ve been running a, very rough, scrape of the Birmingham (UK) based interweb for ’emotional wellbeing’ since April of 2008. Simply put a script running twice a day read in Tweets, newsRead More…
I’ve been running a, very rough, scrape of the Birmingham (UK) based interweb for ’emotional wellbeing’ since April of 2008. Simply put a script running twice a day read in Tweets, newsRead More…
What’s Foursquare for? I think people are still working it out. While the benefits for businesses of being able to target customers and record movement are interesting (and would be much improved withRead More…
“What would happen if the world were suddenly without people; if humans vanished off the face of the earth? How would nature react —and how swiftly?” That’s the question asked by theRead More…
If there’s one thing that fills the web more than cat pictures it’s ruminations on the state, past or future of newspapers and magazines. The truth is old models are failing andRead More…
Meet Scabbycat. He pitched up in our front yard last week sometime. He’s okay, bit neglected looking — but doesn’t have plans to leave, so we’re looking after him as best weRead More…
When chaos runs slowly enough it can look like calm. But it’s still chaos. There has been chaos within the methods of communication used between authority and those it claims authority overRead More…
A few posts ago I postulated that for most people, for most types of ‘news’ algorithms based around attention and the social graph may well be almost good enough to replace theRead More…
People in difficult situations have always relied on dark humour to get them through, police, doctors, solders are well known for it. Private grief or impotent horror at public events produces jokesRead More…
As I said, I don’t see QR codes ever being widely accepted in the UK, easier and lower impact methods of getting to the right web content have already started to takeRead More…
George Orwell said, in an essay of fulsome praise of the man and his work, that Charles Dickens “was not a revolutionary writer”. He didn’t mean that Dickens wasn’t capable of orRead More…