So I finally started an academic blog. Since I’ve been a permanent academic employee at Ravensbourne for around 9 months now, it seemed about time. Academia is still a very exclusive club. Research is still…
Radical Transparency 1
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Image via Wikipedia[/caption] Recently, my Twitter followers were annoyed to see my feed taken over by an electronic device, which was robotically announcing my travel destinations, and occasionally (when I let…
Why the Wisdom of Crowds is not enough…
Social media has been around for a few years, and has now reached the stage where people are starting to forecast its impending demise. They cite the saturation of Facebook memberships in some Western countries,…
Welcome to the digital panopticon
We've had the Middle Eastern civil uprisings allegedly fuelled by Twitter, and now we've had the Blackberry-powered riots here in the UK. Together, these two situations show the power of social networking to amplify and…
Vive La France!
France’s banning of the use of Facebook and Twitter self-promotion by members of the French media has met with some derision in the US. But it’s really not such a crazy strategy. Both in the…