No like button for Facebook’s stock
The bad news for Zuck Inc keeps coming following the IPO that pretty much everyone forecast was too hyped and too late. In today’s Irish Times there’s a piece that talks about the impact on other IPOs....
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Sabu
There’s a great piece in New York Magazine on Sabu, the LulzSec hacker turned FBI informant.
View ArticleIs the Facebook tide really turning?
It’s been hard to avoid the increasing number of negative Facebook stories in recent months. The company’s less than successful IPO obviously colours a lot of the press at the moment, but there has...
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A Tumblr that is actually interesting
I’m enjoying Finian Murphy’s links, vids, thoughts and more over here.
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Dublin Web Summit makes a point about gender.
If you believe what you read and see about internet-y people, then it would be easy to draw the conclusion that like many industries, it’s a boy’s club. Check out lists of influential people in Wired,...
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This is the dude who put the ‘@’ in your email
Wired talks about Ray Tomlinson here. (pic via Wired)
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Arrest that troll!
(image via xkcd) What does “don’t feed the troll” really mean? For me, it means trying not to get sucked in to inflated and incendiary language, not biting the bait laid out by someone who has nothing...
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Rich Kids Of Instagram
If you’re trying to fill the void in your life left from the property porn of Cribs, the party porn of My Super Sweet Sixteen, and what was probably the best reality TV programme ever about vacuous...
View ArticleWhen trolling turns into harassment.
There’s a blog post floating around today that is as compelling as it is disturbing. It’s a blog post by Leo Traynor on meeting a troll. Reading Traynor’s account of what he went through is disturbing....
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Hi ho Spotify!
Over four years after originally launching, Spotify has finally touched down in Ireland, without the need for proxies or borrowing your English mate’s postal codes. Jim Carroll has the deets over here.
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Is @CrimerShow the best thing on the internet right now?
Before March 28th, it was hard to imagine Astonishing Sod coming up with something more brilliantly surreal than his own Twitter account or Friends re-imagined, but then CrimerShow was born:...
View ArticleHow Facebook risks becoming an online suburbia.
Last week, Bob Lefsetz sent out this newsletter about Facebook. If you don’t already subscribe to his curt and insightful opinions and observations about the music industry and its fringes since 2005,...
View ArticleWe Are Big Brother
This post has been hanging around in my drafts for a while now, simply because every time I find a minute to update it, the horizon of online privacy discourse will expand to encompass a new vista; a...
View ArticleRapid Response at the Science Gallery: The NSA PRISM leak
I’m chairing a panel at the Science Gallery on Thursday at lunchtime discussing the PRISM leak. You can find out more about the event here. The biggest leak in the history of US security or nothing to...
View ArticleA great speech about technology and other things by Jonathan Safran Foer
“We understand and remember less from a hyperlinked text, and we experience less emotional depth from a hyperlinked life.” I was interviewing Amanda Palmer recently, and we got on to the subject of...
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Amanda Palmer: “Every artist has to forge their own tasks in this giant messy...
This interview I did with Amanda Palmer appeared in The Ticket on Friday, so here it is in all its bloggy glory. It’s hard to avoid two words when the future of the music industry is being discussed....
View ArticleWe Steal Secrets
I went to see Alex Gibney’s documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks in the Light House last night and it’s great. Aided by fantastic access to Assange from his beginnings as a hacker to...
View ArticleTurn off, tune out, drop in.
(Image: Pale Blue Dot) Authentic. Experience. Emotion. These are words that used to mean something, but have long since been co-opted by advertising agencies in order to sell you beer and deodorant....
View ArticleShut Up!
I read Charlie Brooker’s latest (and last for a while) column on “reducing word emissions” yesterday in some rare quiet time on a train while my phone was dead for pretty much an entire day and I...
View ArticleSharing that leads to shaming has huge repercussions. We need to stop.
Before a party held in Galway called No Way Back took place over the weekend, a set of rules was posted to the event’s Facebook page. Of the rules posted, such as don’t slide down the bowling lanes and...
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