In one of the most terrifying experiences of my professional career, I danced my PhD (not literally, metaphorically, people) for Stephen Fry, Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Simon Singh last Monday night at the recording of Infinite Monkey Cage. I was invited to be one of the panel on the science-comedy radio show, and had the great pleasure of explaining why the subject of my research is a) interesting, b) rational and c) almost like real science (hear that, Prof Cox?).
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[The Today Programme] 5 Years of Twitter: here today, gone tomorrow?
Monday March 21, 2011 @ 11:57 AM (UTC)Twitter, the most popular microblogging platform on the Web, is five years old. But can it survive another five? I was invited onto Radio 4’s Today Programme with mydeco’s Brent Hoberman (co-founder of UK dotcom darling lastminute.com) to talk about its future.
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[The Today Programme] 5 Years of YouTube
Monday December 20, 2010 @ 06:52 AM (UTC)YouTube was five years old on Wednesday 14 December. I was interviewed by Evan Davis for The Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 about its cultural impact, and its effects on modern politics.
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[SciFoo] SciFoo 2010 video
Monday December 20, 2010 @ 06:36 AM (UTC)I’ve had quite a year. One of the highlights of 2010 was most certainly being invited to SciFoo, a gathering of science and tech geeks for a weekend of in-person networking and knowledge sharing. I got to know some of the greatest minds out there, and was suitably awed by the opportunity to meet John Cacioppo, one half of the theoretical team whose Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion formed the backbone of my PhD research. Yes, I am geek.
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[Tech Weekly] WikiLeaks, Anonymous and cyber war (14 December 2010)
Tuesday December 14, 2010 @ 06:42 AM (UTC)The Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast,
Are the attacks directed at MasterCard, Visa and others the signs of the first cyber war? And how did a Tom Cruise video help spawn online activists Anonymous? -
[Tech Weekly] Joi Ito on Creative Commons, game-ify your commute with Chromaroma (7 December 2010)
Tuesday December 07, 2010 @ 04:48 AM (UTC)The Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast
Joi Ito on Creative Commons, game-ify your commute with Chromaroma: Creative Commons chief Joi Ito on how the organisation wants to release the internet from copyright problems, and Chromaroma’s Toby Barnes on how his game turns your commute into fun -
[Science Weekly] Should science journals be free?
Monday December 06, 2010 @ 04:39 AM (UTC)I interviewed Joi Ito, the CEO of Creative Commons for The Observer’s My Bright Idea column, and the inimitable Andy Duckworth, producer of The Guardian’s Science Weekly nabbed some of his thoughts on open publishing for their podcast. You can download it here.
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[Radio 4] Infinite Monkey Cage: The Modern World (Good or Evil?)
Monday November 22, 2010 @ 09:14 PM (UTC)I managed to achieve my monthly belly laff quota in one evening – the night I recorded The Infinite Monkey Cage for BBC Radio 4, a science geek comedy panel programme hosted by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. The other panelists were chemist Tony Ryan and the hilarious Paul Foot.
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[Wonderlab] Delighted... at Hide & Seek's Wonderlab
Friday July 16, 2010 @ 11:44 AM (UTC)I was invited by Margaret Robertson, Head of Development at the magnificently creative Hide and Seek pervasive play group, to deliver a five minute talk on something that delighted me to the participants of Wonderlab, their three day game design workshop. Not being as familiar with the oeuvre of computer and videogames as I once was, and being all too aware that the eminent people in the room knew just as much about the delightful and playful technologies that currently populate the more interesting corners of the World Wide Web, I chose instead to cram in three offline experiences I’ve recently had that all revel in the glorious and delicious moment of anticipation just before something wonderful and expectedly unexpected happens.
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[Media] Cognitive surplus, the soma of television and being on Newsnight with Clay Shirky
Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 03:24 PM (UTC)For the next week, you can catch my appearance on last night’s BBC’s current affairs programme Newsnight with author Clay Shirky, debating the social implications of new technology. It was a great discussion that was overwhelmingly positive about the Web and what it offers, but there were a few sticking points where Clay and I disagreed. I’ll expand on the key one here.
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