Ada Lovelace Day March 24 is Ada Lovelace Day - and many will ask who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the world's first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She was born in 1815, the year
Online social network revolution I'm not sure that most people have realised yet, but social networks are creating a revolutionary change in the way we interact with other people. And they are revolutionary in that they also change how we do things and our expectations of how things work. Non-localised proximity
Online social network revolution I'm not sure that most people have realised yet, but social networks are creating a revolutionary change in the way we interact with other people. And they are revolutionary in that they also change how we do things and our expectations of how things work. Non-localised proximity
Nick Hodge, me & Ada Lovelace Day To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day on 24 March 2009, Nick Hodge has kindly invited me to participate in his show. More details over at Nick's blog. Lord knows what we're going to talk about - but you can guarantee that between the two of us it will
Hypertext to hyperconnectivity The invention of hypertext and its implementation in the form of the World Wide Web was a revolution akin to the creation of the modern printing press. We are still seeing the reverberations of this revolution in many spheres of life. With the implementation of the Gutenberg printing press back