Get real (time) man!

Back at the dawn of time, we amused ourselves with live performances, okay so some of these were actually gladiatorial fights but real-time theatrics nevertheless.  Later came live television broadcasts, with black and white coloured men speaking to us with terribly English accents. Now, we have real-time global conversations on Twitter. Real-time conversations that any [...]

Finally some sociality in Social Networking

I’ve always been a bit unsure of the ‘social’ aspect of Social Media. You gather together with people you are interested in, within an electronic playroom (Facebook) or in a virtual conference room (Twitter) and throw credentials at one another, show-off about recent successes and (most of us) hide any bad news firmly out of [...]