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31/08/2019

Laughing Men and Data Libertarianism

This post is about hacker activism, disruption and social iconography. Images used in this article are without permission, serving their profound duty as another link in the chain of hacker identity proliferation. Today’s news about Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account hack drew my attention to Chucklingsquad. I’d not heard of them before and of course their hacking exploits are designed first...

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25/05/2019

Digital Literacy Lists

Digital Literacy Teaching digital ‘skills’ and competences is about… (A summary top 20) Verbose naming conventions, (preceded by date) Minimal folder trees Shorter file names [also not using whitespace in filenames ever] Date form: year/month/day, always, no exceptions Never use generic file names like ‘meeting’ as the first word of a file name Use a single note making app that...

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09/03/2019

Meme Me

Ideas for the Internet culture wars. These came about as a result of seeing what people said in tweets or Facebook posts, and are cut up snippets.

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01/01/2019

How to navigate your digital life

“How to navigate your digital life, or, how to avoid death by a thousand digital cuts.” Recent events have made me consider deeply how digital life affects each of us and how we navigate these unknown terrains, attempt to manage our interactions, needs and expectations, and how others in our networks manage their own lives that intertwine with ours. How...

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30/12/2018

The Twittersphere Highway

I’ve seen friends having issues with Twitter conversations recently, experience the horror of public shaming, the ritual of punishment by RT. The addiction of argument, justification, righteous ire point scoring. It’s an interesting phenomena, what Twitter ‘has become’. But what does that even mean? Twitter is many things to many people. It’s a conduit of information, knowledge and professional connection....

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02/02/2015

New Consumer Creators

I was asked to give a talk last year for a local arts organisation in Holloway Road – Rowan Arts. They were running a one day conference with quite a few interesting speakers and events and about fifty people attended. I was fairly honoured to be asked and thought the best way I could be relevant was to talk about...

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21/11/2013

Developing Your Internet Profile

“Growing New Markets for the Web” was an all day seminar aimed at start ups and small businesses. I was commissioned to scope and create the content, and lead the seminar on the day. The seminar was attended by around 35 start ups and small business owners and held at the Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, UK, supported by ‘Knowledge...

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30/03/2013

SocialMet

SocialMet was a university social media project instigated by the Strategic Programme office at London Metropolitan University. The initial aim of the project was to elicit direct feedback from students (and staff) for input into the development of the Student Charter. I was approached by the SPO to lead on how to achieve this as had worked with social media...

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