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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[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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[UTTW] Untangling the web
Saturday November 27, 2010 @ 12:05 AM (UTC)I’m starting a brand new series for The Observer New Review and The Guardian today called Untangling the web, in which I look at some of the greatest social implications of the World Wide Web. It’s a pretty awesome series that I’m very excited about, including a fortnightly column in the paper and an ongoing blog on the Guardian networks. Keep an eye on the official page, and the regularly updated Tumblr for an ongoing reporter’s notebook.
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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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[ENGAGE 2010] Supercharge your Serendipity
Thursday November 18, 2010 @ 09:28 AM (UTC)I opened the Internet Advertising Bureau’s ENGAGE2010 summit in October (followed – intimidatingly – by Carol Bartz, Yahoo!’s formidable CEO) with a talk that aimed to provoke the advertising creatives in the room to consider what impact that their actions were having on the experiences of the people who consume the World Wide Web.
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[UKRC 2010] If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it
Tuesday November 16, 2010 @ 09:42 AM (UTC)I was a keynote speaker at the UKRC’s annual conference in October, a network of women working in technology and science. I was absolutely honoured to be there, and the buzz was immense. There was a lot of frustration and concern, but a whole conference hall of women making the future of this sector as programmers, developers, applied scientists and inventors. The opportunity to speak with so many female Makers and Do-ers, when so many of the events I attend are overwhelmingly male, was exciting and inspirational.
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[How It Works] Interview with me, plus 1984 images published!
Friday October 08, 2010 @ 01:26 PM (UTC)I was interviewed by How It Works, and they’ve kindly opened the content – normally published on dead trees – online.
Because I chose my Canon 7D DSLR as my favourite piece of gadgetry, some of my 1984 photos were published too. They look rather nifty in print.
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[The Times] Machinating Machines
Thursday October 07, 2010 @ 10:35 AM (UTC)Times Higher Education, 7 October 2010.
Computers can auto-generate processes, so can we really use them for scientific research if we can’t control them? asks Aleks Krotoski
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[RSA Journal] Linked Out
Friday September 17, 2010 @ 11:12 AM (UTC)In this article, published this month in the RSA Journal, I grapple with the (in)ability of online social networks to support and produce real-world social action. I spent a lot of time on the arguments in this article, as it translated so much of my theoretical thinking to a more public audience: how can online social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn contribute to offline social capital? Does the online capital accrued through actions and identity development actually mean anything? How might the diffusion of responsibility, click-activism and social posturing found in online social networks thanks to their perpetuity, their first-person narratives of identity and their articulated friendship trees actually diffuse social action rather than facilitate it?
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