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Category: Society

  • Has a tipping point arrived for Twitter?

    A lot of people have being doing a lot of writing about Twitter during the past week. I’m not referring specifically to the awful events in Mumbai, India, where Twitter played a significant role in rapidly connecting online people with…

  • A politician’s arrogance or ignorance

    Here’s an extraordinary tale from Robin Wauters of a prominent politician’s cavalier attitude to public funds and contempt for people’s opinions. As described by Robin, the story is about Belgian Minister of Defence Pieter De Crem, pictured above, whose recent…

  • The Facebook jury

    If you have to serve on a jury in a criminal trial, you’d more than likely think very carefully about discussing that trial outside the jury room and what’s going on in court. You wouldn’t blog about it, tweet it…

  • 5 tips to being safe online

    The email I received this morning from PayPal was such a genuine-looking one, it almost had me fooled. Except it wasn’t from PayPal at all but instead an attempt at phishing. The first giveaway that it may not be the…

  • Winds of change fan Obama’s high expectations

    Since Barack Obama won the US presidential election last week, warm goodwill around the world towards the President-elect (and, I’d argue, towards the USA in general) is undiminished; if anything, it’s increasing. You can read the opinions of political analysts,…