“BigWhiteWall is just three months old and was started as a new kind of advice and support network for the web. Monitored by trained advisors who look after users 24/7, offering help but also encouraging healthy expression and discussion with other users. “It is funded, so far, by selling a house and taking a [...]
Stuart Glendinning Hall
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Dreaming of Kak
Nice Kaka twitter: grapefrugten: had a strange dream. I met Kak
Hypermimesis, Hyperpolitics, and web 2.0
In his well-received talk at this year’s Personal Democracy Forum (organized by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry), “digital ethnologist” Mark Pesce makes the point that “we have a drive to connect and socialize: this drive has now been accelerated and amplified as comprehensively as the steam engine amplified human strength two hundred and fifty years ago. Just as the steam engine initiated the transformation of the natural landscape into man-made artifice, the ‘hyperconnectivity’ engendered by these new toys is transforming the human landscape of social relations.This time around, fifty thousand years of cultural development will collapse into about twenty..
Know exactly where you stand in the world
Geotagging explained by the Guardian’s Jemina Kiss (who obviously overcame writer’s block to get this one down): “Should you ever be at Stonehenge, looking out across Salisbury Plain and wondering when the stones were excavated, you can pull out your mobile phone and go to wikinear.com. It knows you are at Stonehenge and shows a [...]
SavvyChavvy
As reported by the BBC social networking site for young gypsy travellers has won an award for the social use of technology. The SavvyChavvy site was one of eight projects honoured in the UK’s Catalyst Awards that recognise technology used to serve communities. Cool news. When back in 1991 I did my grad journalism training my [...]
Snag this
Thanks to Dalai’s PACS blog, which I still follow despite a change in jobs, I came across this great free film service where you can watch documentaries for free called SnagFilms. Yeah, and share them web 2.0 style. Except I can’t as the widgets won’t display.
The water in Majorca
A couple of classic 80s TV beer adverts.
Breaking the ice on the Dixie Queen
Have a lovely evening on the Dixie Queen, smoking a nice Nicaraguan cigar.
Facebook update from F8
23 July: Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote webcast ”We’ve got one guy in Greenland”. “We’re opening up the translation tool.” Mr Z gets a big ‘whoo’ from the audience for the annoucement that you no longer will have to sign up for apps as a user, you can just use them. Right on. 23 July: TechCrunch liveblogging the conference [...]
Lifecoaching yourself
Someone rang trying to sell lifecoaching as a business opportunity (for a mere