Caroline Scott finds that mojo has some unexpected dangers in war zones from an interview with Nick Garnett of BBC 5Live: “For years I have been extolling the virtues of small, hand-held devices, on the basis that they are non-intrusive,…
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LeWeb: The delightful, dangerous, diversifying drone debate
A LeWeb session on drones, curated by Mr Robert Scoble. Robert Scoble Robert loosely puts drones in three categories: Toys – and other things you’ll chase your cat with Professional drones – made to carry cameras and other payloads. B2B drones…
LeWeb: From incremental to disruptive innovation
What does truly disruptive innovation look like? The opening session of LeWeb 2014’s third and final day set out to explore that in series of talks. Here’s some liveblogged notes: Brian Solis – Innovation as an ecosystem What is…
Burger bites journalist
I’m not entirely sure if this is journalists going above and beyond the call of duty, or just bloody stupid: Assistant news editor Arron Hendy, and trainee reporter Ruari Barratt were taken by ambulance to the Royal Sussex County…
Le Web: danah boyd on Social Network Visibility
 Your experience of the social web is not the same as everyone else’s. Your experience of the web is shaped…
Social Network Fame
Oh, now this is very interesting: Clearly, the unease about the levels of private information being posted on public web services is growing. It’s a new technology, and it’ll take us a while to get to grips with…
Blogger gets Death Threats
This is profoundly disturbing: Death Threats in the Blogosphere In her latest post, Kathy Sierra reports that she has been receiving increasingly disturbing threats (death threats, and of sexual nature), to the point that she has cancelled her appearance at…
An englishman's home is... someone else's castle, it would appear
Americans reading this story will probably be struck with disbelief. I know I am.…