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Wikipedia Blackout

Written by monkey. Posted on January 18, 2012. Filed under Blogs and blogging, Technology. No comments.
wikipedia blackout

This is Wikipedia today. The modern world’s most accessible knowledge base is protesting against controversial Stop Online Piracy Act tabled in the US of A. Congress have rightly been lobbied to do something about piracy online, but the SOPA legislation has bee described as too … Read More →

Bigger Trees Near Warter

Written by monkey. Posted on September 30, 2011. Filed under Art, Photography. Tagged . No comments.
Bigger Tress Near Warter David Hockney

Ou Peinture Sur Le Motif Pour Le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique In the digital age we tend to spend our lives looking at big things on little screens. Perhaps we sometimes lose our sense of perspective? But it’s digital technology (on small screens) that’s allowed David … Read More →

The Madness of BetFairPoker

Written by monkey. Posted on July 27, 2011. Filed under Brand awareness, Social Media. Tagged , , , . No comments.
Bet Fair Pokers twitter love affair Dallas

Recently it seems the world has been going mad. It was always a pretty wacky world really (real life is always weirder than fiction of course). But lately everything just seems more surreal than normal. For instance, NASA have been given jurisdiction over the Scottish Premier League television rights. NASA?! … Read More →

Professional Bloggers

Written by monkey. Posted on July 26, 2011. Filed under Blogs and blogging. Tagged , , . No comments.
Pop Sugar blog Lisa Sugar $10 million

There’s no money in blogging, right? Meet three women who’ve turned weblogs from a personal fanzine into full time businesses.

Alternative Google Plus circles

Written by monkey. Posted on July 20, 2011. Filed under Social Media. Tagged . No comments.
Alternative Google circles

Happy Place crack another missed opportunity with this little visual ditty. Wish I’d thought of it… Click to see the full version (and thanks Happy Place!)

The Sun website hacked!

Written by monkey. Posted on July 19, 2011. Filed under Newspapers. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Murdoch hacked

Rupert Murdoch got what some might call a taste of his corporation’s own medicine last night as The Sun homepage was hacked, seemingly by LulzSec. For some time during the night The Sun.co.uk redirected to a fake version of the site with a story that the … Read More →

Social media: the new wall of shame

Written by monkey. Posted on May 9, 2011. Filed under Social Media. No comments.
social media wall

Once upon a time people used to write obscenities on walls. A marker pen in a toilet cubicle, a spray can of paint round the back of the bike sheds, a blunt knife and a sycamore tree. These were the tools of the cowardly bullies … Read More →

Dell’s Suicidal iPad Killer

Written by monkey. Posted on March 20, 2011. Filed under Technology, design. Tagged , , , . No comments.
dell inspiron duo tablet pc

Trying to be more cynical than I really am, I’ve always wondered what benefits and iPad would have for me? Sure there’s all sorts of possibilities for using them at work, at home and on the move. Yes, reading a book looks like it might … Read More →

The future is in us but may not be us

Written by monkey. Posted on February 24, 2011. Filed under Comment, Social Media, Viral. Tagged , , , , , , , . 2 Comments.
get-off-the-internet-day-web

Mystic Meg tried to predict it. Arthur C. Clarke and HG Wells were intrgued by it. George Orwell nailed it more than he could imagine. The future. How do you pre-empt the next big thing? How do you calculate how people will behave beyond iPads? How do you … Read More →

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