Technorati has just completed their run through of posts relating to their 2009 State of the Blogosphere report. Then intention of the report is to examine the trends within blogging that have taken place over the past twelve months, exploring the changes in growth and media that is being utilised by the bloggers that responded to their survey.… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Lifestyle & Society
Ethical Blogging: Promoting your site
Building a successful website really requires two core things: good content and good marketing. Without good content, nobody is going to want to visit your site more than once. But without good marketing, nobody will visit your site at all.… Continue Reading
Tweetivism: social justice or internet lynch mob?
It has been undeniable that 2009 was the year that Twitter put itself on the map. Not just as the home of the early adopter, or as a tool for celebrity brand control, but as a method of social activism and justice.
Sentient City exhibition in NYC explores future use of technology
I’ve just found word of a great exhibition being held at the moment in New York – called ‘Toward the Sentient City’ – which showcases various reactions to the future use of technology in society. There are some great installations set up, many of which blur the line between art and prototype fantastically well. The… Continue Reading
Broadband soon a legal right in Finland
With the internet age well and truly upon us, many governments around the world are trying to implement wide-scale broadband access to ensure that their citizens are connected. South Korea is a famous example, but it seems that Finland is the first country to officially pass a law that makes a broadband connection a legal right.
Nanotechnology and the social implications of immortality
There has been some renewed interest again by various online media outlets about the use of nanotechnology to greatly extend the human lifespan. It has even been said by some futurist commentators that the possibility is there for such advances to be made within the next 30 or 40 years.