Web services that suck
At the tail end of the last millennium, before blogs and definitely before social media, there was a book published called Web Pages That Suck, a guide to badly-designed web pages aimed at people...
Category: Social networking
Online friends, suicide and threats thereof
Recently, two people I know (or knew) on Twitter posted threats to kill themselves. One of them is a woman who has bipolar disorder and has been in hospital on several occasions recently; the...
Twitter silence is not an answer
Recently in the UK (not sure how many of my overseas readers are aware of it) there has been a major controversy about abuse of women activists on Twitter, which erupted when a feminist...
Kony campaign insults viewers’ intelligence
Recently a campaign launched by a charity called Invisible Children, which works in northern Uganda, has led to a video being promoted over Twitter, Facebook and no doubt other social media, calling for the...
Who are you sticking it to?
Earlier today I saw a comment on Astrid van Woerkom’s blog in response to a criticism of the “communication shutdown” wheeze from various autism chairites. There has been much criticism of the scheme here...