If something sounds too good to be true, then it normally is, which segues nicely to the sale of shares in social networking site Facebook exactly a week ago. The internet is a mystery to many of us but if there is one thing that has been proved since its inception, it’s that a fool […]
The Power Of Modern Dissent!
Yesterday’s paper had a good quote from Alastair Campbell which highlights the power of global communication in today’s world and its effect on the way governments and regimes control dissent: “There are governments and leaders who continue to believe that they can shut down networks and keep dissent in its box. They can shut down […]
Why Are Political Candidates So Crap With Social Media?
There seems a certain irony when our politicians have been pushing for a faster internet and Gordon Brown is claiming “in five years time we can be the digital leader of the world” that very few of them seem to know how to make use of it. This election is the first when all the […]
Facebook Terrorists!
The news this week, that the government want to monitor all the details of one-to-one activity on social networking sites like Facebook, must have come as a major relief to prospective terrorists in the UK. They will now feel safe in the knowledge, that while the security services are drooling over pics of nubile mini-skirted […]