• social-media
• fediverse

There's plenty of blogposts about getting started with Mastodon, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be another. This one is aimed particularly at UK users, people who might be academics, special interest folks or alternative culture people. Technical… / Read More

• datasociety
• AI
• gen-ai

I became fascinated by generative art a long time ago. I mean years and years. It may have begun when I saw Simon Schofield 's exhibition at I think somewhere in UCL that I was taken… / Read More

• social-media
• data

This post is a quick guide to how to object to Meta Facebook including your content for AI training model data. TLDR: if you just want the main form Ive linked it below, but its interesting to see where this is buried and the preceding question asking… / Read More

• opinion
• urbanism

When I waited all of 10 minutes for my near-silent air conditioned electric bus ride back home from Lidl a few days ago, I again played the 'count the single occupant cars' game. Yes, still a ratio of approx 75-80% single occupant journeys. In Malta… / Read More

• coding
• feeds
• obsidian
• rss

This post is about how to import RSS into Obsidian using the Simple RSS plugin. It's aimed at total beginners… / Read More

• opinion
• datasociety
• ai
• gen-ai

The absence of critical voices in AI and Higher Education debates has become a deafening silence. This think-piece reflects on why this might be, and where to find trusted academic sources that go against the grain to highlight the situation… / Read More

• digital-skills
• fediverse
• internet
• digital-futures

Or 'how we got here and where we might go next'. This is an autobiographical take on the history of the internet from one person's ex-musician PoV. I think this standpoint is probably quite representative of how internet culture came to be… / Read More

• publishing
• research
• journals
• open-access

Open Access (OA) has always been thought about as a way to throw open the doors of reading and publishing academic work. To encourage anyone and everyone to read expert peer reviewed knowledge from a wide range of subject areas, and that academics,… / Read More

• social-media
• datasociety

It's going to be very interesting what happens to microblogging now, with the apparent chaotic meltdown of 'X', formerly known as Twitter, and the rapid, planned… / Read More

• AI
• knowledge-web
• datasociety
• gen-ai

There is a huge problem rapidly approaching on the horizon of data society: the authenticity and custodianship of the Knowledge Web. This has been especially highlighted by the ever expanding AI data web crawling and soon to be encountered 'unravelling'… / Read More