techno-culture

And as a summary of the negatives of both these forms of communication, he is spot on: “…monetisation must eventually happen somehow. People aren’t being connected, they’re being bundled up and sold.” Of course this ‘downsides’ view is not the only view, but he certainly throws some needed cold water on some very overexcited tech [...]

Tags: blogs, Twitter

The subjects of my two pieces in today’s Irish Times business section are at opposite ends of the spectrum: my column is on how swine flu (I refuse to call it Influenza A!) is showing up the best and worst of Twitter, while my feature story is on the earliest days of Irish computing, on Gordon Clarke’s enjoyable talk [...]

Tags: Engineers Ireland, Irish computing, Irish Times, Twitter

A recent paper indicates that social media tools can be more distracting than productive (I know, many will say, DOH!). At least in the case of adding tags — people had poorer comprehension of what they had read when they added them, compared to when they simply read the article. I have always had the [...]

Tags: Mike Butcher, social media, tags, Twitter, William Gibson

I keep a couple of Twitter accounts — if you are interested in my tech-oriented public Twitter account, I’m @klillington. I keep it very low volume. However I’ve also just set up a rescue-oriented public account: @ckcsrescue, which is part of my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel rescue service in Ireland, Irish Cavalier Rescue. If you [...]

Tags: CKCS, dogs, Irish Cavalier Rescue, Twitter