Posts in future web

Is Birmingham Happy?

I’ve been running a, very rough, scrape of the Birmingham (UK) based interweb for ’emotional wellbeing’ since […]
by Jon Bounds
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Mayors, badges, and blue plaques?

What’s Foursquare for? I think people are still working it out. While the benefits for businesses of being […]
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Chernobyl Fallout

“What would happen if the world were suddenly without people; if humans vanished off the face of […]
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The future of publishing

If there’s one thing that fills the web more than cat pictures it’s ruminations on the state, […]
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Lost and Found

Meet Scabbycat. He pitched up in our front yard last week sometime. He’s okay, bit neglected looking […]
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Chaos

When chaos runs slowly enough it can look like calm. But it’s still chaos. There has been […]
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Is Flipboard that ‘just good enough’ RSS reader?

A few posts ago I postulated that for most people, for most types of ‘news’ algorithms based […]
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The public/private problem

People in difficult situations have always relied on dark humour to get them through, police, doctors, solders […]
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“Just good enough” and why RSS readers might be skip-tech

As I said, I don’t see QR codes ever being widely accepted in the UK, easier and […]
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Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus

George Orwell said, in an essay of fulsome praise of the man and his work, that Charles […]
by Jon Bounds
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