I first started thinking about using twitter during a very loosely organised but wildly interesting talk from Phil Long (@RadHertz) nearly two years ago now. In the course of a one hour talk that wasn’t called ‘Cool Stuff I’m Excited About’ but should have been, Phil told us about TED talks – showing us the […]
I just read a great post by John Borthwick which reviews the upcoming book about google by Ken Auletta. I encourage you to read the entire post, as I’m only going to focus on this part of it: What about a corporate statement of intent like Google’s “Don’t be evil”? “Don’t be evil” resonated with […]
Is google making us stupid? No. We keep hearing the argument that relying on technology makes us less smart somehow. Plato was probably the first person to make this argument. His target? Writing – his argument was: So, too, with written words: you might think they spoke as though they made sense, but if you […]
