Whenever I read about what companies like Facebook are up to (today, it was via the Guardian), I think that I don't really want to give away my data that easily, and then I have another go at weaning myself off social media. As the author says, "as with smoking, it's easier to not start using the social web than to stop": I do worry that I'll miss ( Read more... )

If you are easily offended, and/or US politics make you mad (I know, me too!), then best not to look at ( this. )

So aside from looking for a book, and trying out an Internet Fast, what have I been up to this month? Let's load up GCal, and find out ( Read more... )

As pointed out by mr_magicfingers, the Home Office looks to be implementing an EU Directive that requires telcos to make available data on all our texts, emails and internet usage, as well as the phone calls logged already.

I think I'm going to revert back to writing letters.

... was the headline I spotted in someone's newspaper at Reading station today, instantly raising my hackles, and causing me to utter "how can we even pretend we have equality when this sort of thing goes on?".

The headline belongs to an article published in today's Observer, and is in reference to a new report by the Fawcett Society called Sexism ( Read more... )