02nd February 2006
Do you think anyone has declared moving type to be the end of civilization in the same way people said typewriters were killing letter writing, telephones were isolating people, and television and the Internet were isolating young folk from other people? ...
01st February 2006
I've been having a bit of a problem lately. As I've been working for an Internet company for a couple of years you might expect that I'd have my own website by now. I really wouldn't mind having one. As a creative writer it would be great to put up my boo...
01st February 2006
I asked a colleague from work today if he had any news about new Internet phenomena that would be cool to check out. He told me about the concept of social software. Social software is where someone takes an existing computer program and combines it with ...
31st January 2006
If you're anything like me, you've spent many, many hours of your life watching television. From sit-coms and game shows to cartoons and reality TV, we've sat in front of the box for a large part of our life watching stories of one sort or another. What w...
31st January 2006
Last week I wrote an article about all the new and cool uses of Google Maps when they're mixed with other software technologies, (See 'Social software? Check out Google Map mash-ups.' by Jesse S. Somer). In that same vein of 'map usage being taken to the ...
31st January 2006
I'm amused how little geographic location matters on the Internet. I often smile when I wonder if the person I'm chatting with is even on the same continent. Everyone in the world might as well be just across the street, if they are using the same messeng...
25th January 2006
I think that people can solve all of our problems, if we could just work together. In fact, I think that solutions of many of our problems already exist in pieces scattered here and there all over the world. For example, all over the planet the Sun is shi...
25th January 2006
The Internet is like New York, a city that never sleeps, except for the fact that it is not actually a city. The Web's 'anytime' nature is a boon for people who want to talk to someone at 4 am such as anyone who is doing shift work. Before the Internet, i...
19th January 2006
When you talk to people online there is a wonderful lack of background information. Generally, I'm in favour of the 'all-the-information-you-can-get-your hands-on' theory, but in this case less is better. Talk to someone face-to-face and you can't help ma...
16th January 2006
You might think I am some sort of idealist or believer in a utopian society, but there are some questions that I like to ask and wonder about in relation to the future of our species. One such question that often comes to mind is, 'Can individual people...
16th January 2006
A few weeks ago, I went to collect some friends from the airport. They were arriving just after 11 PM on a Wednesday night. I arrived fifteen minutes early, in case their flight was early, and settled down in the arrivals area with all the other peopl...
09th January 2006
It is 11:15 am on December 23rd and I've just finished my Christmas shopping, which is about normal for me.
I usually think about gifts, both what I'll buy and what I'd like, from around the 14th of December until about the 20th December. Then I do the...
05th January 2006
Every kid who has ever lived has wondered what it would be like if they could travel to the Moon. Originally I assume they would have imagined it as a giant white disc that one could fall off of if you got too close to the precarious edge. Now we know tha...
05th January 2006
Journalists in most contemporary societies have the freedom to express their opinions and thoughts through the use of the media. The Internet is frequently the chosen media for journalists to express their ideas due to its speed and also its popularity. H...
05th January 2006
http://www.m6.net/articles/images/neopet.swf
If you haven't heard of Neopets than I have to seriously wonder what planet you come from, you definitely don't hail from Neopia. www.neopets.com is one of the most popular sites on the whole Internet, and wha...
