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Turmoil engulfs a Twitter in transition

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6 November 2022

Even if you’re not a fan of Twitter and/or Elon Musk, you’d have been hard pressed to avoid news about both over the past week. Since closing the deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion (£39 billion) on October 27, Musk has sowed huge fear, uncertainty and doubt about what’s next for the social network that’s unevenly beloved of celebrities, politicians, big organizations, non-profits, individual people, and spammers and scammers alike, everywhere in the world. There’s so much going on,…
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Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Technology

Wikipedia is about to get easier to edit

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31 October 2022

If you’ve ever been involved in editing or creating content on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, you’ll know it’s not something you’d typically approach casually. Creating new pages and editing existing ones is not an easy task for beginners. While there are myriad rules, policies and customs you must comply with, there’s not much in the way of easy-to-follow guidance on the ‘how’ of creating and editing the content that forms part of the encyclopedia. Now, 21 years after Wikipedia was…
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Aside, Politics

The end of days

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20 October 2022

The front page of the i newspaper succinctly portrays the political landscape in the UK this morning. It’s almost beyond reasonable belief that this country has arrived at such a state of chaos with not only a government in utter disarry and the economy in tatters but also the political party it represents being one that seems clueless as to what it stands for and what it offers the people of this country. Three weeks ago I wrote that this…
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Aside, Technology

Who is the creator?

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5 October 2022

The photo you see above of a spectacular post-dawn red sky is the scene that confronted me early on Monday morning when I opened my front door. It took my breath away! I captured the scene with a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 foldable smartphone and posted the photo to Instagram. But that photo is actually not the same as the photo above. The photo here is a subsequent enhancement of the original photo, known as a “stylized photo,” automatically created…
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The ship of state is all at sea

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30 September 2022

For the past week, I’ve been trying to make some sense of what Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer respectively, are attempting to achieve in and for the UK with the not very “mini” budget announced to the House of Commons a week ago today. Reaction to that announcement was swift, not only in terms of wide criticism almost anywhere you cared to look but also in a hard negative financial reaction through what…
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