digital culture
Graham Norton and the impossible question
When a celebrity gets asked about cancel culture, there is no right answer. It is the impossible question ā and we need to ask better ones.
digital culture
The rest of the "information wants to be free" quote
Information wants more then to be free. But too many people forget that.
digital culture
Giphy starting to rank Gifs by popularity
Giphy wants to tell you how dank [https://medium.com/@giphy/introducing-gif-view-counts-e3ec1899e7bd]1 your memes are: > You can see view counts for every GIF from an official Artist or Partner. When you visit an official Artist or Partnerās Channel, you can now also see how many GIFs are
digital culture
Underestimating the digital power of Russia's intelligence operations
Buzzfeed [https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/some-in-congress-dont-get-the-gravity-of-russian-election] : > In an internal memo to CIA employees last December, CIA Director John Brennan complained that some members of Congress he had briefed about the agencyās assessment that Russia interfered in the US presidential election did not āunderstand and appreciate the importance
digital culture
Slaying the myth of the digital native
Nature [http://www.nature.com/news/the-digital-native-is-a-myth-1.22363] takes aim at the prevaling āwisdomā that the younger generation are more digitally adept: > But a paper published last month in Teaching and Teacher Education reaches the opposite conclusion. The digital native is a myth, it claims: a yeti with a
design
Offscreen - the print magazine for digital types - redesigns with #16
Issue 16 of Offscreen magazine is now available. Itās a beautiful print magazine all about the digital industry, which Iāve been happily reading for the last couple of years. If youāre interested in online, but still a lover of great print magazines, itās well worth a
Brilliant Noise
Joining the Dots
Iām spending today liveblogging Brilliant Noiseās Dots conference [http://brilliantnoise.com/dots/], as curated by the lovely Neil Perkin [http://neilperkin.typepad.com]. The posts will be going up on the Dots conference site, not here. Iāll add links to the posts here, as and when I
Andrew Sullivan
Online publishing needs to get personal
Andrew Sullivan nails why traditional publishing brands struggle [http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/why-not-do-away-with-print.html] to bring their readers with them online, in a piece about personal migration on reading from print to digital forms: > But it takes guts to actually make the change. An individual can, overnight.
data
Google's trust deficit
Mark Wilson, summing up his thoughts [http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2012/07/the-annotated-world-the-future-of-geospatial-technology-edparsons-at-digitalsurrey.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marksweblog+%28markwilson.it%29] on last weekās Digital Surrey Google Maps talk [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/07/digital_surry_
Blogging
What's NEXT? Post Digital Culture
[http://nextberlin.eu/] So, I have a small announcement that Iāve been very much looking forward to making.Yesterday, the website for NEXT Berlin, the excellent technologyĀ conferenceĀ [I attended last year](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/business/next/), relaunched with [a whole new look](http://nextberlin.eu/). Most