Last month, a waiting world rejoiced as Her Majesty the Queen joined Flickr.

I'd like to imagine her sitting down with a techno-flunky to select her choice of photographs: "This is me opening Parliament in the Bahamas. And this is Phillip opening a sewage pump station in Coventry. Oh, and there's that horrid little man, Berlusconi trying to look ( Read more... )

Who knew travel to work could be so much fun?  Since I discovered podcasts, the bus has become a transport of delights.  This week alone, I've experienced an eclectic mix of programmes:

This American Life: real lives, real stories,  including a young woman's attempt to understand her father's love of guns: "I guess we both love noise: mine from ( Read more... )

As I gaze into the screen and catch up on lives being lived in Boston, Bulgaria, Brisbane and Barcelona (and other places not necessarily beginning with B), I can only gasp in awe and ask: was there life before cyberspace?

A decade ago, names like Wikipedia and Facebook, Google and Flickr would have meant nothing to me. And not just the names. The ( Read more... )

Do you Kindle? Or are you a Sony Reader?  I haven't tried e-books yet, and given that I only just started using a dvd player last year, I'm guessing it'll be a long, lazy learning curve. Others, however, are powering ahead.

This (overlong) article documents one man's experience of e-books.  At first, it's not a happy one.

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Some photographs from Berlin's Communication Museum.  It would have been easy to shunt things like old telephones, stamps and writing instruments into a dark, out-of-the way space. Instead, they''re on show in a glorious building that was once the Imperial Post Office.


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