Category: Society

  • Twitter squarely on the mainstream map

    Hot news in the US yesterday was the popularity contest between TV actor Ashton Kutcher (the current husband of Demi Moore) and the CNN TV network to see who would be the first to acquire one million followers on Twitter.…

  • Powerful imagery at Easter

    This Good Friday is an apt day on which to think about death and destruction. Rather, avoiding death and destruction in a world without nuclear weapons, a call to action made by Barack Obama in Prague last week. The Economist…

  • Create or die

    I’ve been thinking about this new cartoon from Hugh MacLeod on and off since I saw it yesterday. Hugh’s gapingvoid cartoons always make you think. I remember when I first discovered Hugh’s cartoons and that you could get one on…

  • Twitter’s explosive worldwide growth

    Data published yesterday by comScore Media Metrix shows that growth in the number of people who use Twitter continues non stop and the micro-blogging service now has nearly 10 million users worldwide. According to comScore: […] Worldwide visitors to Twitter…

  • Resonance

    I had a huge laugh at the idea of Flutter in “Think Microblogging is Hip? Try Nanoblogging!” and the rather good video parody on stereotype users of Twitter and other social networks. Especially this paragraph: […] people aren’t necessarily sick…