Category: Society

  • RIP Michael Jackson, you thrilled us

    I was up late in my office last night when the first comments on Twitter about the death of entertainer Michael Jackson started appearing. It wasn’t long before those tweets became a torrent as more and more people heard the…

  • What is a browser?

    Scott from Google went out on the streets of New York and asked people if they know what a browser is. The results may or may not surprise you. What they’ll indicate is how those of us embedded with tech,…

  • Milestones in Iran

    While the mainstream media is proving its worth (and its mettle) in its reporting of fast-moving events in Iran, that parallel universe known as social media is a channel for huge volumes of comment and opinion, the type that is…

  • The ridicule of Parliament

    This morning, I picked up a copy of today’s Daily Telegraph, the edition of the paper that includes “The Complete Expenses Files,” a 68-page report detailing the revelations about MPs’ expenses that the paper has been publishing every day for…

  • MPs expenses: How to save £91 a week

    Earlier this week, the government published the details of expenses claimed by Members of Parliament. Plenty has been talked about during the past few months in relation to MPs’ expenses, not the least of which has been the ongoing scoop…