Why are these places empty?

When Occupy popped up last year, people would say “What are they protesting about? They don’t believe in anything”. That was how it looked, but there was more to it than that. They were occupying the here and now expressly *without* common purpose or agenda – and the process of doing that is a very…

Here's a quick idea inspired by a bit of my conversation with Matt Edgar whom I met this morning thanks to a twitter shout out from @Deirdre. We were talking about mobile apps like instagram and the problem with them being tightly coupled, so you can't easily get at bits of the data, and link to…

I’m noticing that the general backlash against twitter and other social tools has had a boost recently, presumably in response to the positive vibe coming from those celebs who’ve found it useful: @stephenfry, @wossy, @schofe et al. Just joining some dots… Dr Aric Sigman writes in the Biologist (though I’ve not seen the full article…

I’m sure my literal translations of English idiom into French are amusing too, but I had to snigger when Gilles Klein introduced Adriana yesterday thus: “The Lady, it’s a blogger” This was before the pictures were shown of her out shooting commies in the forest. tag: lesblogs & language

I didn't get any immediate and obvious answer to what to do about the next stage of the trip.  I made some efforts to continue trying to get a lift.  NOLA friends made some suggestions and I followed them all up, but no-one was keen on taking an unknown English guy on a 10-hour road…