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Sep 8, 2022

Twenty-One Years of Digital Planet on BBC World Service

Aleks Made Us Macarons and They were Delicious! Early in 2001 I was a freelance journalist, writer and speaker, doing my best to help people understand the internet and how it was transforming the world, and arguing that it should be reshaped to be supportive, humane and regulated to serve…

BBC

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Twenty-One Years of Digital Planet on BBC World Service
Twenty-One Years of Digital Planet on BBC World Service
BBC

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Sep 2, 2022

Pass me that lobster: Conjuring up the metaverse

There continues to be enormous interest in the development of the next generation of image generating tools. My Twitter feed is full of people’s experiments with image synthesis tools like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, while even TikTok is getting into the game with its own built in ‘AI Greenscreeen’. …

Metaverse

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Pass me that lobster: Conjuring up the metaverse
Pass me that lobster: Conjuring up the metaverse
Metaverse

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May 11, 2022

From 2LO to 2IP

It’s May 11 2022 and at some point today I’ll walk down Strand to Aldwych and stand outside a set of very exclusive apartments just next door to the ME London hotel. …

BBC

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From 2LO to 2IP
From 2LO to 2IP
BBC

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Jan 2, 2022

Thinking About The Digital Public Sphere

This essay is based on a talk given at the first meeting of the Shared Digital European Public Space group, which took place online on 9 July 2021. …

Digital Public Sphere

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Thinking About The Digital Public Sphere
Thinking About The Digital Public Sphere
Digital Public Sphere

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May 6, 2021

Thomas Clubbs (died May 6 1981)

My maternal grandfather Thomas Clubbs, known to me as Granda, died forty years ago today, at the age of 81. Born in July 1899 he was always just unimaginably old, though I’m now the age he was when I was born in 1960. I saw him a few weeks before…

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Thomas Clubbs (died May 6 1981)
Thomas Clubbs (died May 6 1981)

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May 5, 2021

Ismene: Pale Network

One Sunday at the end of April I was listening to Cerys Matthews’ show on BBC 6 Music, and there was a remarkable interview with the actor Lisa Dwan, who was talking about her role as Ismene in the recent BBC Four play Pale Sister. …

Art

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Ismene: Pale Network
Ismene: Pale Network
Art

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Feb 27, 2021

Launching Top Marques online in 1996

A random post on LinkedIn that tagged me has reminded me that twenty-five years ago today, on February 27 1996, I launched one of the more significant websites of my career — the online presence of the car sales magazine Top Marques. The post was from Lee Williams who worked…

Website

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Launching Top Marques online in 1996
Launching Top Marques online in 1996
Website

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Dec 29, 2020

First you assimilate…

I’ve been reading a lot recently about how we have adapted to the various types of lockdown or other restrictions that we have faced around the world as we respond to SARS-COV-2 and the Covid-19 pandemic in our various ways. Of course the adaptations have been greatly influenced by personal…

Covid 19

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First you assimilate…
First you assimilate…
Covid 19

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Nov 9, 2020

Augmented Reality and Omniscient Capitalism: Reviewing Mark Pesce’s ‘Augmented Reality’

If you thought surveillance capitalism was troubling, then Mark Pesce’s new book on augmented reality will give you a lot more to worry about. In his usual easy, accessible style he shows just how data-hungry effective augmented reality will be and explores the implications of handing both data and technologies…

AR

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Augmented Reality and Omniscient Capitalism: Reviewing Mark Pesce’s ‘Augmented Reality’
Augmented Reality and Omniscient Capitalism: Reviewing Mark Pesce’s ‘Augmented Reality’
AR

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Sep 26, 2020

Juvet and me

Three years ago I woke up in a hotel in the beautiful Norwegian city of Ålesund, gathered my stuff and set off to meet my old friend Andy Budd and a disparate group of thinkers to drive across Norway to Valldal and the Juvet Landscape Hotel, well known as one…

Juvet

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Juvet and me
Juvet and me
Juvet

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