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Prof Brian Cox on the anti-expert mood Paid Members Public
> It’s entirely wrong, and it’s the road back to the cave. The way we got out of the caves and into modern civilisation is through the process of understanding and thinking. Those things were not done by gut instinct. Being an expert does not mean that you
The end of the shared media moment Paid Members Public
Berkeley Breathed on the reaction to his return to Bloom County [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/07/14/berkeley-breathed-speaks-here-is-why-bloom-county-is-really-returning/] : > “There is no media that will allow a Charlie Brown or a Snoopy to become a universal and shared joy each morning at the same moment across
The nature of the Reddit beast Paid Members Public
What actually is Reddit?, asks Samantha Allen, writing for The Daily Beast: Reddit is not so much the generic front page of the Internet as it is its spacious, tricked-out man cave: a lot of people can fit inside, but only some people feel comfortable hanging out there. And she
LeWeb: The age of Twitter diplomacy is here Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/matthias-lufkens.jpg] Liveblogged notes from Matthias Lüfkens’ talk at LeWeb 2014 There are now hundreds of accounts of political leaders and foreign ministers on Twitter. Very few world leaders actually do the tweeting themselves. Those that do are normally
Meaning - Mark Stevenson: the future and how to survive it Paid Members Public
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/mark-stevenson.jpg] Mark Stevenson [http://www.twitter.com/optimistontour] is a cultural change consultant. Douglas Adams said
Obligatory #gamergate post Paid Members Public
Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/so-gamergate-just-women-seem-4508850] on prominent women developers [http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/brianna-wu-gamergate]
#selfie culture Paid Members Public
Is selfie culture rendering moments lesser than your role in them, and the record of them? Even if it is – is it a problem? And is it even new? I have a relative that doesn’t see the point of most photos that don’t have a family member in
Taylor Swift, and the value of your Twitter followers Paid Members Public
Big surprise of last week: Taylor Swift had some really interesting thoughts about the intersection of tech and commercial art [http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-1404763219] in a piece for the WSJ: > There are a few things I have witnessed becoming obsolete in the past few years, the first
