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• 11.06.10
  Is it time to lay the term ‘social media’ to rest? Digital tech, Social media | (1)

  The web has always been social to me. One of the first things I did when I first started using it around 1996 was set up an email account with a small email service which was later going to be bought by Microsoft – Hotmail. Why? Because I wanted to communicate online with my friends who were also, around this time, setting up email accounts. One of our favourite pastimes in those days was to go to the computer room at school and login to Aftonbladet Chatt, an online chat rooom hosted by one of the largest tabloids in Sweden. We’d ...
• 11.21.09
  My letter to my MP about the Digital Economy Bill Copyright, Digital tech | (1)

  Dear Jeremy I'm writing to you to express my concerns over the new Digital Economy Bill. It's my understanding that the role of the Bill is to help stimulate the digitial economy of Britain. However, as far as I can see, there isn't anything in the Bill that does that. Nothing about cheap, fast and open broadband. Nothing about reform of copyright to help entrepeneurs. Nothing about giving people the right to use publicly funded media to create new media. Nothing about how to bridge the digital divide. Nothing about how young people are going to be encouraged to use digital technology ...
• 11.16.09
  The power of blogging Africa, Digital tech, Social media | (0)

  So if the previous video was an example of how not to do it, here is an example of exactly how it's supposed to work. Make sure you watch to the end.
• 11.11.09
  Google + World Bank = magic Digital tech, ICT for development | (0)

  Development Indicators. The notion brings me back to my undergraduate days and with it visions of stacks and stacks of heavy tomes filled with pages and pages of statistics. Or even worse, the UNDP's and World Bank's online statistics databases that seem to have been developed by technology geeks with not even a remote interest in usability or design. One of which you even have to pay for. The last time I had the misfortune of having to search one of them was when I used the Human Development Index to write a post on poverty in Guyana a couple of months ...