Monthly Archives: April 2008

£12 a year on Twitter? Vote!

By Jonathan | Published: April 29, 2008

Just a thought, but if everyone who used Twitter regularly paid £1 per month for the privilege, then Twitter would get get £2.4 million ($4.7 million) a year. And that’s based on the stats from Techcrunch that claim 200,000 active users and 1 million registered users, so if anything that figure is low. The current growth [...]

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The Daily Mail, LOLcats and ‘me’

By Jonathan | Published: April 29, 2008

Ages ago I came across the image of a white cat wearing blue swimming goggles and I chose to adopt it as my avatar and profile image for Facebook. I now use it everywhere I’m online (look at the top of this blog or click through to one of the other places I am) and [...]

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Human brands and beings

By Jonathan | Published: April 28, 2008

The other day, amidst the global flow of information coming at me via the interwebz, I stumbled upon this little gem that made me smile and feel all content for a second as it fits in 100% with where I’m at. It’s a clip of Noah Brier talking at the PFSK LANY (thanks for pointing [...]

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I Want You To Want Me

By Jonathan | Published: April 21, 2008

Amazing interactive installation that scrapes data from dating sites. Really beautiful and tip of the iceberg when it comes to the web powering art. It’s all about human beings and we’re slowly but surely coming back to that. Being human on the web is something I am extremely passionate about. The interactive installation “I Want [...]

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Random US observations

By Jonathan | Published: April 21, 2008

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I’ve been in the US for the past two weeks. I am in fact still feeling really jet-lagged which is on the whole a bit crap. I decided that although I took my laptop out there to do a few bits and bobs [...]

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Radio Silence

By Jonathan | Published: April 9, 2008

Am (sort of) offline until 19th April. Anything urgent, please call/txt me – I’m five hours behind on US time. Normal service to resume shortly upon my return.

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April Fools at the speed of light (well, the web)

By Jonathan | Published: April 1, 2008

So, today is April Fool’s Day. And don’t we know it! As a sign of how connected we all are and how fast things move these days, here’s a comprehensive list of April Fool’s Day activity on Wikipedia already. Really does make you think about how we are indexing our own lives and everything we [...]

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