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Connecting Facebook status updates and fighter pilot tactics

Really liked the link made in the fourth programme of the BBC’s The Virual Revolution between Norbert Wiener’s feedback loop for anti-aircraft gunners in WWII (ie breaking down the division between people and systems, to allow gunner’s to hit their airborne targets) and the radical impact of the status updates within Facebook (and the likes [...]

Posted 22 February 2010 † Stuart Hall § Brain teasers § IT § Inventions ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

What the Governor of the Bank of England said

Watching Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England speaking live at the Mansion House he said something to the effect that the church did weddings and funerals, and people ignored the sermons. He said the Bank of England did sermons and burials, fluffing the intended analogy. The BBC then reported that the Bank said [...]

Posted 17 June 2009 † Stuart Hall § Business § Comedy § Complexity ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,