So you’re signing up to BrandNuThingOnTheBlockr, and since it hasn’t yet implemented OpenID it asks you to create a password. You choose horatio, because why should you deviate from the password you’ve used for every other site? OK, maybe you should deviate slightly. You type it in and, huh, look at that, it tells you [...]
Archive for March, 2008
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From the “oh noes” department
From the Guardian today:
The report shows that teenagers are digitally promiscuous, switching allegiance from sites as fashions change. One 16-year-old girl told the IPPR: “First it was like everyone was on MSN, then everyone sort of has Bebo, now everyone who had MSN moved on to Facebook, so it’s just what everyone’s doing at that [...]
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The little things
The first difference you notice between the buses in Austin, Texas and Glasgow, Scotland (I recently returned from the former and live in the latter) is that the drivers in Austin don’t drive along cocooned in reinforced plexiglass. They politely correct you when you put your day pass through the slot the wrong way, and [...]
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Greetings from the laundromat
I write this from a laundromat in Austin, Texas – still here after attending all the SXSW activities. Cultural disconnect is starting to kick in – I feel like a fly on the wall of a 70s B-movie (one where the characters enjoy omnipresent free wi-fi with portable computers that aren’t made of wrought iron). [...]
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