Digital by Default

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  • Generosity

    I never fail to be amazed by the acts of generosity that my corner of Twitter is capable of. Whether it be with their time, knowledge, support or actual cash they often go to great lengths to reassure my faith in human nature (something the mainstream media seems intent on destroying). I wonder if this…

  • Mobile misery

    I got my first Nexus4 in late November 2012. I managed to destroy it by dropping it on a subway grate in Long Island City, New York. I received my replacement (which was actually an upgrade to the 16gb version) on the 16th April 2013. I destroyed that phone on Friday 10th January 2014. Dropped…

  • Jelly Aardvark

      I’m going to be careful not to be dismissive of Jelly if only because last time some of the Twitter founders launched something new I thought it sounded pretty dull and would never find an audience and now Medium seems to be growing like a weed (I was right about Branch though I think!).…

  • 2013 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many…

  • Internet archive law changes

    Came across this via Twitter this morning – http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2013/11/spluh-spluh-splutter-goes-the.html A couple of ‘highlights’; The 2013 regulations said the UK Web Archive would be available only to people who visited a “Legal Deposit” like the British Library in person and sat at one of its terminals. Any pleb with ideas above his station knows not just…