The corridor of uncertainty

The debate on the misuse of Twitter back channels at conferences continues and I have to mention another good post on the subject from a par...

I read recently that over 90% of all e-mail in the world is spam. Despite this it's still the most popular means of written communicatio...

The use of Twitter to digitally shout down a speaker at the recent Web 2.0 Expo ( see previous post ) has produced a lot of welcome debate ...

I finally got a Google Wave invitation and logged in a couple of weeks ago. That's it - so far. It's still in quarantine until I hav...

I have previously written about public discussion forums which are often sabotaged by self-styled experts who enjoy humiliating any new memb...

Every time you sign up for a new service or download an update you get that annoying window with the terms of service. Does anyone read them...

In a recent Guardian article on the growth of open educational resources ( Any student, any subject, anywhere ) there was a quote from David...

If you say something controversial at a meeting, in class or even at a party there's an ever-increasing likelihood that your comment wil...

Say what you will about Twitter but no-one can deny the diversity of content and wealth of imagination that's out there. I can't hel...

When I was a student back in the seventies there were plenty of distractions during lectures. Some doodled, some wrote notes to each other, ...

A report from BBC reveals that it will soon be possible to use non-Latin characters in web and e-mail addresses. Seemingly the organisation...

A BBC news item today made me jump for joy (well, almost). The International Telecommunications Union has announced that they have approve...

We all assume that everything on the net is free and that somehow advertising pays for all the services we use. As a result we upload tons o...

I've written several times about e-book readers, especially Amazon's Kindle , and would really like to try one out. They are just b...

Remember that seventies comedy with Dolly Parton about life in an office? Thirty years on, we've dumped the typewriters but most of us a...