If you’ve been reading me long enough – or had the misfortune to be trained by me – you’ll probably have heard me describe myself as a “grouchy old cluetrain advocate”. And, by “cluetrain”, I mean Cluetrain Manifesto, of course.…
internet
A collection of 17 posts
Understanding Tor - and the anonymous internet
If you’ve been following stories like the Snowdon NSA revelations or the recent Silk Road bust, you’ll probably have come across mentions of Tor. Want to know exactly what it is? The Next Web does an excellent job…
Silenced by BT
Apologies for the patchy posting around here – I’m now in my 11th day without broadband or phone service at home, thanks to BT. I reported the fault on Thursday 4th as soon as it happened. By the time I…
How the internet actually works
A surprisingly clear and concise explanation: Not, in fact, a series of tubes. 🙂[via [Boing Boing](http://boingboing.net/2012/06/06/fing-internet-how-does-it.html)]…
A last post about Steve Jobs
Just to round off my blogging around the death of Steve Jobs – which rendered the cover line on the magazine above strangely apposite when I spotted it in Victoria Station last night – here’s a few other posts that have…
RSA: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
At the RSA again for the Rise and Fall of Information Empires event. Today’s speaker is Tim Wu, riffing on the themes from his book. Tom Chatfield is in the chair. Liveblogging follows (typos and errors likely): Every North…
#likeminds - Tiffany St James on technology & social change
Tiffany St James is hammering us with stats – the vast amount of data created every two days, the number of people online, the even larger number of people using mobiles. What’s the most common reason for using the internet?…
US citizens look at "social stuff" online...
Initially, I got rather excited by this infographic that’s doing the rounds: [](https://i2.wp.com/www.…