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Category: Society

  • Twitter as a public service

    What a great initiative announced yesterday by the city of San Francisco – enable citizens to use Twitter as one of the means through which they can use the city’s 311 online information and services network. […] you will be…

  • Making the European elections visible

    I was thinking about the elections to the European Parliament coming up later this week and the fact that the only information I’ve received about them have been flyers through the letterbox from particular political parties. Hardly impartial (and no…

  • The news is dead; long live the news

    There’s much talk these days with various opinion and predictions of an unclear future for the newspaper business. We’ve seen some pretty radical events in recent months, notably in the US – the Chicago Tribune’s Chapter 11 filing last December,…

  • Is there any surprise trust is so low?

    You could see the headline on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph on the newsstand from 50 feet away: The ministers and the money. Whatever your political stance, it must surely be apparent to anyone that something in Westminster…

  • The Time 100: Personal insights

    I’ve been reading through the 2009 Time 100, a list of the world’s most influential people as Time magazine describes it, published last week. It certainly is a fascinating read. These are influential people, unquestionably so. The list of world…