Tag: facebook

Bad Climbing Tips Facebook group success

29 November 2024

I never expected my Facebook group "Bad Climbing Tips" to become such a vibrant community, but here we are, 2,900 members strong, using humour to highlight climbing safety in a way that traditional educational approaches never could. The premise is simple: post the worst possible climbing advice you can think of. But there's method to […]

Understanding Julian Huppert MP's support of Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill

11 July 2014

Of all the things I might say about Julian Huppert MP, stupid is not one of them – he's consistently informed, reasoned and principled. Pretty good qualities of an MP, as I think you'd agree. This makes his support of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill… surprising. It seems to be a broadly unpopular […]

PRISM: What you won't hear the Americans say (but what you should be very scared of).

9 June 2013

The recent revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden about the US's PRISM program, have, in the US, mainly centered on how the NSA could be spying on American citizens which may or may not be against the constitution. The details seem to suggest that so long as the data collected is 51% or more, between non-Americans, […]

Stephen Fry at Oggcamp? Awesome or Awesome?

29 August 2012

It's not often I go to events were well known people are speaking. It's even less frequently where the tech events I go to have well known broadcaster speaking. However, Oggcamp – the world's friendliest unconference – is a special sort of event and persuading Stephen Fry to give a video address, answering questions and […]

Thanks to Facebook's new timeline layout…

15 December 2011

…for helping me remember how shit 2008 was: Ah, things have only got better since that "truly exciting" month!

Social Media and the Russia Election protests

7 December 2011

Вы можете прочитать эту статью на русском языке (Google Translate). Back when I was at school, I was exceptionally privileged to have the opportunity to visit Russia several times. Whilst I was there I made friends with a number of Russian young people. I remember in 2005 or so, having just had a tour round […]

Howto be a submarine facebook 'friend' and wreck friendships

12 November 2011

Hi, today I want to talk about how to really mess up friendships with Facebook. No this isn't so that you can go an use it on people, but because it's a flaw which I think people should be aware of. First we have to understand a little known feature of Facebook: Facebook doesn't want […]

Introducing Pokebook.co.uk

24 July 2009

Stephen Mount wrote: We don't all seem to aspire to be a founder of a website which allows you to poke people. I don't aspire to be one either; I am one! Introducing www.pokebook.co.uk… Pokebook is an exciting new service which has transformed the landscape of the web. Designed for teenagers with too much time […]