Turn left at the internet, mind the idiots as you go
I don't give a shit about your email full of cute puppies and imbecilic fart juice A few years ago, before I learned that we must all pretend we are okay at all costs for fear of looking as though we...
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I don’t normally get a kick of computerish games (does Solitaire on my mobile count? Bah. Thought not) but this looks fun. Bam crash wallop.
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It’s been an auspicious week to join Twitter. I got to witness with my own little eyes the latest step in the war of attrition between Dr Ben Goldacre* and ‘Dr’ Gillian McKeith, the Channel 4...
View ArticleThe past is another country
Last week I received a Facebook message from a woman I didn’t recognise, mainly because the name she was using was a touching conglomeration of your usual hippie terminology: think ‘Mystic Angel of the...
View ArticleBeware the coming of the masses
If, like me, you totally heart the internet, are prone to getting annoyed about things and have an overwhelming compulsion to procrastinate then you too may have been gleefully following the debacle...
View ArticleWhy I’m wary of KONY2012
Yesterday was one of those days when the internet exploded. From the moment I switched on my laptop till the point when I closed it and went to bed, Facebook and Twitter were awash with Uganda, with...
View ArticleThe trouble with Twitter
There are a lot of things wrong, and a lot of things right, with our developing culture of social media anonymity. It gives people freedom, both to say things that are dangerous and to say things...
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