Web [version excursion]

I’ve been trying to imagine what life was like before the whole world wide web. It’s difficult now. It’s frustrating because I lived half of my life without it, so why can’t I remember what it really felt like? I guess the only way would be to ignore it for a year. But the web…

The Conspiracy Theorist’s Bias

“You’re marking your own homework!” I love this response to a conspiracy theorist on Twitter. I’m pretty sure it was a conspiracy theorist; it’s one of the many voices who want to believe the governments of the world are wanting to poison us through vaccinations. It’s not whether vaccinations do kill people or not, it’s…

The death of social media will not be blogged

* a title with a nod to Gil Scott Heron. I read an article this morning in The Atlantic about the imminent demise of social media. Most of the sentiments expressed in this article I found reasonable, but I feel reports of its death a bit premature. The main points are that social media isn’t…

Small world, big world, ho-hum…

Is it me, or has the internet become less relevant, and not so interesting, lately? ~ * * * ~ Driving back from Cornwall the other day, we saw a strawberry moon rise over the horizon. It was spectacular. We considered why it appeared to be huge. It’s no bigger than at any other time.…

The Only Wooden Boy in New York

Anyone know or remember the Disney animated movie of Pinocchio; the scene were the boys are encouraged to toke on fat cigars (and are they given also swigs of hard liquor?) and one by one they begin to transform into braying jackasses? This scene plays in my mind on occasions when I’m contemplating the effects…

A Tweet, a Medium piece and a Quora question walk into a bar…

I get emails and I don’t know why I don’t just unsubscribe from these places but, looking on the positive side, they do throw up the occasional thought-gem. ~ * * * ~ Medium “Never trust a person whose tv is bigger than their Bookshelf ” from ‘7 Best Advices from “THE SUBTLE ART OF…

WebLife

“No man is an island, entire of itself…” wrote John Donne in his Meditations. I think each of us is conditioned by our own time and I wonder what might have been in Donne’s meditations had he lived today, with its information share overload. In contrast, the Kiwi, Tom Neale, took the decision in the…