What they say …
So what’s it all about, this Twitter? Is it signaling, like telegraphs? Is it Zen poetry? Is it jokes scribbled on the washroom wall? Is it John Hearts Mary carved on a tree? Let’s just say it’s communication, and communication is something human beings like to do.
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Archie – the first web search engine
Posted on November 8, 2009 | No CommentsBBC Radio 4 Saturday Live has an interesting interview with the man who invented Archie – the first search engine to appear on the web. Definitely worth a listen. The interview starts at 36:10 and lasts about ten minutes. We know why Google was named... -
Google … again
Posted on September 11, 2008 | No CommentsIt seems that Google’s power knows no boundaries. Now it wants to digitise thousands of pages of archived print newspapers. Is it such a good thing that one company has so much of our public information on its private databases? -
Is Google making us stupid? – Atlantic Monthly
Posted on June 24, 2008 | No CommentsIs Google Making Us Stupid? As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be...