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    RT @dominickj: Brighton is on streetview, woohoo. Trying to see if I got pictured when I saw the Google car in B'ton

    Thursday 2:46

    Useful: Online brand reputation or social media listening software – a review of 26 tools http://bit.ly/dBL9Fg

    Wednesday 7:25

    RT @richardbaxter: F1 fans!! http://f1calendar.com/ - add to your calendars...

    Wednesday 7:08

    RT @brightonargus: Hunt for Worthing "poo thief" http://bit.ly/dCETZ4 < lol

    Wednesday 7:06

    RT @TelegraphTech: BT boss criticises Digital Economy Bill http://bit.ly/cZ8PSX

    Wednesday 7:05

    RT @TobitM: People using IE6 don't deserve the internet (@freshegg) < credit the source then! http://bit.ly/9sTXl1 :)

    Tuesday 8:26

    RT @lyndoman: 5 iPads are now being given away! Mad March Launch of snippa.co.uk @snippalive http://bit.ly/cOAPJF

    Tuesday 8:01

“Data deluge will reboot our brains”

A great title, and an interesting article based on a study looking at how data consumption has changed over 30 years. It’s been conducted by the University of California and suggests that we consume on average 34 gigabytes of information each day!
The speed of modern life is 2.3 words per second, or about 100,000 words [...]

Telegraph website tops newspaper website market share league

http://www.nma.co.uk/the-telegraph-becomes-most-popular-online-newspaper/3000317.article?nl=DN
This is interesting news – it marks a win for the Telegraph in the attention markets.
For some time iCrossing’s Head of Social Media Antony Mayfield has banged on about how the Telegraph set up their new Victoria offices. It was set up to be much more like a trading floor, and indeed uses the same [...]

The progression of information technology

On the Cloud, Augmented Reality, & the Networked World

There’s a fantastic post by over on the URBEINGRECORDED blog by Chris Arkenberg. Lots of amazing future gazing ideas, and stimulating all sorts of thoughts for technology and innovation.

Within 10-15 years mobile devices will constantly interact with the world around us, analyzing objects, faces, signage, locations, and anything else their sensors can engage. Camera viewfinders [...]

Internet use ‘good for the brain’

In a previous post I wrote about how information overload is making us stupid and there’s an article in the Sunday Times today that goes to back this up – Keep clicking and you’ll be a snappy thinker.
Brendan Montague and Helen Brooks write about a new study that as been conducted in California that goes to [...]

Information overload

I stumbled across a great article written by Nicholas Carr, who in 2003 wrote the Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter” which reminds us of the cold calculating computer HAL 9000 from the all time fave movie 2001:
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with [...]