The countdown continues... 10 The podcast playlist November 2013 The podcasts I currently have on my podcast player (BeyondPod, since you asked). 9 The Scunthorpe issue July 2013 A bit of a rant about the stupidity of thinking that the answers to all things evil on the Internet lie in technology. 8 Campbell’s law, Goodhart’s … Continue reading Top Posts for 2013 – 10 to 6
Category: Themes
In the past few days I've seen news coverage of the Bitcoin phenomenon which has included a man trying to find a hard drive containing millions in the currency, lost on a landfill site in Wales, reports of a rise in theft of bitcoins, and even accusations about Bitcoins being nothing but a fancy … Continue reading Tiptoe through the tulips…
I'm a bit of a geek. I know that. I accept that. I have become resigned to that. I'm nowhere near being the geekiest person I know, but then there are many people who are way less geeky that I know. Here are some things that, as a middleweight geek, I think you should think … Continue reading Five vaguely geeky things you should do in 2014
Continuing a theme from a post I wrote earlier, I have been spending a bit of time today looking through Business Insider's encyclopaedic collection of data about all things digital (see for yourself here: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-digital-2013-2013-11?op=1)There's a lot of data. Much of it summarized into neat graphs. It's all very interesting.But what does it tell us about … Continue reading Trending nowhere
The roundup continues... 15 Internet of Things Is “Useful” Shocker! April 2013 Experiences of a holiday cottage at Easter this year that at last put the usefulness of The Internet of Things into some sort of context for me. 14 Thoughts on leaving August 2013 Reflections on my time at Microsoft. 13 Socially naked June … Continue reading Top posts for 2013 – 15 to 11
Nearly 17 years ago I was a member of a team that implemented the BBC's first data warehousing project. It gathered information from a number of operational systems, and then using a combination of products provided reports about the profitability of various products that the commercial wing of the organisation produced and sold. Technically … Continue reading Big data, little questions, cognitive biases
I'm currently reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile. It's not the easiest of reads (a prequel written after a sequel starts on a bad footing - just ask George Lucas) but a fascinating concept - that the opposite of "fragile" isn't "robust" or somesuch (which are just neutral concepts) but rather "antifragile" where things get stronger … Continue reading Digital fragility
Another year, another round up of the top-read posts on this (and also the stamplondon.co.uk) blogs. 20 Implosion September 2013 A review of Andy Law's great book about the Internet and what it's doing to us 19 What is a… Cinema? November 2012 Part of a short series that looked at ways in which many … Continue reading Top Posts for 2013 – 20 to 16
Compare and contrast... A new technological innovation is able to make judgements about people's emotional state, and target advertising to them as a result. An estate agency monitors Facebook accounts to target potential new customers in their area when statuses change from "Married" to "Single". A supermarket constructs long waiting lines at checkouts and then … Continue reading Influencing emotions
The BBC has released a new tranche of data about the use of its iPlayer services (full report here: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-oct13.pdf) and whilst the headlines (like this one http://thenextweb.com/uk/2013/12/02/bbc-iplayer-mobile-tablet-use-almost-caught-desktop/) will no doubt focus on the continuing narrative about the death of the PC, there is something far more interesting (not) happening from my perspective. Whilst the consumption … Continue reading The television will not be revolutionized…
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