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Travels with my phone
Recently, I came across some photos of the year my husband and I went travelling. The above is one of many we have of the Route 66 (I-40) when we spent a few months in the USA and did a driveaway. We...
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Ritual: Feast on your life
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. – Zen proverb Mythologist Joseph Campbell once said that we don’t always need a ‘why’ life happens as it...
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Feeding the machine: The embodied human in a social media world
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy… But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality...
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Simplexity and the Internet of Things
What is now proved was once only imagined – William Blake In the brilliant (alas, cancelled) Forever series, Episode 17: Social Engineering, Detective Jo Martinez, and her ME Dr Henry Morgan are...
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Digital Culture
When we think of culture, we often think of art galleries and museums, places where curators decide which works of art should be preserved and presented to future generations. Treasuring artefacts and...
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Web design: Getting to grips with your user’s experience
A collaborative medium, a place where we all meet and read and write. – Tim Berners-Lee [Part 2 of 5 in the web design series, intro, part 1] In the 1970s, the waterfall model was enthusiastically...
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Web design: Being content with your content
A collaborative medium, a place where we all meet and read and write. – Tim Berners-Lee [Part 3 of 5 in the web design series, intro, part 1, part 2] A website should be looked after and tended. It is...
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Web design: Sharing and caring on social media
A collaborative medium, a place where we all meet and read and write. – Tim Berners-Lee [Part 4 of 5 in the web design series, intro, part 1, part 2, part 3] Nowhere is Berners-Lee’s vision of the...
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Web design: Evaluation
A collaborative medium, a place where we all meet and read and write. – Tim Berners-Lee [Part 5 of 5 in the web design series, intro, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4] Even though evaluation is the...
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Writing a blog series
I have been blogging here for about eight years, but hadn’t ever written a blog series until recently. By this, I mean a series of blog posts, on one topic – in this case, five blog posts on web...
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How stories matter
© savageminds.org People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way round. – Terry Pratchett When Salon@615 hosted Anne Lamott in conversation with author Ann Patchett,...
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Women and Storytelling: Saint, Spy, Suffragette
We’re in every home, we’re half the human race… – Maud Watts, Suffragette Two years ago, I wrote a blog I called Women Centre Stage. It was inspired by my girls, who had just started school, and had...
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Katie Hopkins’s #fatstory one year on
Source TLC. I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me “I love you.” … There is an African saying which is: “Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” – Maya Angelou Last year...
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Social Psychology: The Social Animal on Social Media (1)
Source: http://www.techweez.com [Part 1 of 9: The Social Animal Series] Last year I wrote a blog called Alone Together: Is social media changing us? in which I discussed Sociologist Sherry Turkle‘s...
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Yoga Lessons: Bikram one year on
Last year, I discovered the heat of Bikram Yoga. However, once my 30 day introductory pass was over, I didn’t sign up again. Then winter came, and with it, my struggle to keep cheerful once Christmas...
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Conformity: The Social Animal on Social Media (2)
Source: www.techweez.com [Part 2 of 9: The Social Animal on Social Media, Part 1] Recently, the Guardian newspaper decided to shut down comments on articles about race, immigration and Islam, saying...
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Propaganda and Persuasion: The Social Animal on Social Media (3):
Source: http://www.techweez.com [Part 3 of 9: The Social Animal on Social Media, Part 2, Part 1] In his classic social psychology book, The Social Animal, Elliot Aronson says that we live in an age...
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Social Cognition: The Social Animal on Social Media (4)
Source: http://www.techweez.com [Part 4 of 9: The Social Animal on Social Media, Part 2, Part 1, Part 3] Humans construct stories to explain how people and the world around us work; this is known as...
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Yoga Lessons: Bikram wisdom
You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from scratch once again. – Bikram Choudhury I am entering my third month of regularly practising Bikram Yoga, and am...
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Self-justification: The Social Animal on Social Media (5)
Source: www.techweez.com [Part 5 of 9: The Social Animal on Social Media, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4] I have been stuck on this blog, for a while, as I try to talk about the ways in which we...
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