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John Naughton on the iPad

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Dave

John Naughton‘s Observer piece on the iPad is well worth reading in full: It’s when one tries to use the iPad for generating content that its deficiencies become obvious. The biggest flaw is the absence of multitasking, so you have to … Continue reading →

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Internet megalomania

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Dave

John Naughton is spot on about the recent Facebook announcements in his Observer column: What’s comical about this stuff is not so much its implicit arrogance – the assumption that we all want to share using Facebook – as its … Continue reading →

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Cultural agoraphobia

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Dave

John Naughton’s Observer piece this morning is a good one: The cultural agoraphobia from which most of us suffer leads us always to overemphasise the downsides of openness and lack of central control, and to overvalue the virtues of order … Continue reading →

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Rewriting the rules

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Dave

John Naughton‘s Observer column on ten years of blogging is a delightful read: This openness to immediate criticism and/or rebuttal is another revolutionary aspect of blogging. What we are seeing, wrote Clay Shirky some years ago (available online at http://bit.ly/fkxik), … Continue reading →

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Nick Davies at Wolfson College

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Dave

John Naughton links to an event taking place in Cambridge on 19th May: Nick Davies, a well-known and award-winning investigative journalist, has recently published Flat Earth News, a controversial and highly-critical analysis of the British news media in which he … Continue reading →

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