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We need a new English phonics alphabet
When I was a young sub-editor in Indian English dailies, my news editors would simply bin the newsprint on which I’d draft headlines if I used any cryptic abbreviations.
Digital thought clones manipulate real-time online behavior
The knowledge that technology companies are preying on their users’ digital activities without their consent and awareness is well-known. But Associate Professor Jon Truby and Clinical Assistant Professor Rafael Brown at the Centre for Law and Development at Qatar University have pulled the curtain on another element that technology companies are pursuing to the detriment of people’s lives, and investigated what we can do about it.
Teens have a smart reason for abandoning Facebook and Twitter — Quartz
Today, however, the newest data increasingly support the idea that young people are actually transitioning out of using what we might term broadcast social media—like Facebook and Twitter—and switching instead…
OneClimate.net
Social networking on climate change
OneClimate.net is a new social networking space for sharing ideas and experiences on climate change. An interesting and hopefully influential initiative of OneWorld.net for which I worked some years ago.…
Trying WordPress on iPhone
I just downloaded WordPress application for iPhone, and am trying to post to my site from the phone. Looks easy to do, though typing with one index finger is far…
Is your boss your ‘friend’?
An interesting news story in the International Herald Tribune about the dilemma of Facebook users about having their bosses as 'friends'.
Children flock to social networks
More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds who are online in the UK have a profile on a social network, BBC reports quoting research.