One thing I’ve consistently resisted is getting a Blackberry or other such device for managing email when I’m on the road or generally out and about. The major part of my self-justification is that I really do not wish to be like the many others I see at train stations,…
Alan Moore has posted a fascinating interview with Benjamin Joffe, CEO of China-based consulting boutique Plus Eight Star, about a special report his firm published last month on Cyworld, the virtual community that began in South Korea and which is spreading globally. The interview is interesting for its peek at…
Today is OneWebDay – a day which, according to its Wikipedia entry, is “a day when users of the World Wide Web are encouraged to show how the Internet affects their lives. The purpose of the event is to globally celebrate online life.” Today is the first OneWebDay and is…
2,973 people died on September 11, 2001 in the twin towers collapse and elsewhere in terrorist outrages in the US on that dark day. 2,973 people. The majority Americans but also those from over 40 different countries. Five years on. Never forget.
What a story! A World of Warcraft gamer en route to meet a fellow gamer in Canada sparked a major security alert when he, er, lost his iPod on board his flight. Here’s how the story begins: It all started when I got out of my seat to go to…
When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadenijad started a blog last week, it didn’t get an awful lot of meaningful attention in the English-speaking blogosphere. Perhaps it should have, if only to say that here we have the first blog in the world where the blogger is a country’s leader, assuming that…
An intriguing social experiment from the BBC – The Time When: […] The site is a place to record and share memories of the important days in your life. It also gives information about events which have taken place on any day since 1st January 1900, and on many dates…
It looks like I managed to return to Amsterdam late this morning through a narrow window of opportunity, so to speak, given the disruption to air travel that’s now biting hard following the terrorist plot in the UK that’s been foiled by police there. I’ve been in New York for…
