As you’re probably aware, various alterations were recently made to Facebook’s user interface. And, as is now commonplace when this happens, large numbers of people reacted pretty negatively. This was followed, almost as predictably, by a backlash from those who thought getting worked up about a few fairly superficial cosmetic changes was maybe a teensy [...]
Along with what felt like most of the rest of the UK left blogosphere, I spent yesterday at the TUC’s Congress House for Netroots UK. For the most part I was pretty impressed – though as with all conferences like this there were a large number of different events being run concurrently and I only [...]
As I write this on Saturday evening, news sites are all abuzz over the…er…shocking news that the Children’s Commissioner doesn’t think we should try ten-year-olds as adults, while the government appparently thinks it’s perfectly OK, despite the fact that no other country in Western Europe does so. So far, so predictable. But in all the [...]
“Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must [...]
Just recieved this notification: The Iranian Government is now tracking Twitter and Facebook in Iran. Everyone please go to your setting and please change the location (Top right ‘settings’) and network to IRAN so the government will have a hard time tracking the facebookers and tweeters. If anyone is on Twitter, set your location to [...]
