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  Why Collaborate? A Chat with a Computer Music Geek from Goldsmiths College

  05.18.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Mick Grierson is Co-Director of the Masters in Fine Art – Computational Studio Arts, BSE program in Creative Computing at Goldsmiths College in London. He’s also very interesting indeed. Here’s an audioboo from my chat with him this morning about the Centre For Creative Collaboration Website: Goldsmiths are an ideal early partner in the Centre [...]

• social media

  The Power Of Play (Ada Lovelace Day)

  03.24.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Ada Lovelace Day has rolled round again – a day to celebrate women in technology. Always a good thing to do, given the disparity STILL present in the tech world in terms of opportunity, representation and credit for what they do. This year, I’m going to write about the power of playful tech usage. Jamillah [...]

• social media

  Connect4: A Twitter-Twist On Follow-Friday.

  03.20.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  For those of you that are familiar with Twitter, you’ll know all about Follow Friday already – the idea is that on a Friday, you post a tweet or two recommending a few of the people that you follow to the people who follow you – ‘hey check out ***’s tweets, she’s funny/clever/whatever’ – that [...]

• news/current affairs, social media, Technology

  Cloud Culture – The Obvious Obstacle?

  03.09.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The tendency for people to shift their computing life into ‘the cloud’ is rolling on at great pace. More and more people are trusting • their email to Gmail, • their photos to Flickr, • their back-up to Amazon or Dropbox, • their documents to Google Docs and are using collaborative platforms for sharing data, [...]

• news/current affairs, social media

  Open Letter to Lib-Dem Lord Clement-Jones re: Web Blocking.

  03.03.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  [I just sent this in response to the Open Rights Group's call to contact the Lib-Dem and Conservative Lords over their proposed amendment to the Digital Economy bill allowing sites to be blocked under suspicion of enabling the transfer of copyright materials.] Dear Lord Clement-Jones, Along with everyone I know who works in IT/the internet [...]

• social media, Technology

  iPad – Why Bad Marketing Is Worse Than Bad Product Design.

  02.01.10 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  Of course I’m going to write a post about the iPad – isn’t it obligatory if you’re a blogger? First up, I need to say that I don’t really get the way that people feel affronted when a product falls short of their expectations. Crap products are made all the time, and in a supply [...]

• social media

  2009: The Year Of The Blog Commenter

  01.02.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This post is by way of a massive THANKS! to everyone who contributed on my various blogs – stevelawson.net, beyondbasscamp.com and here on solobasssteve.com – 2009 was the year that the comments on my blog became the main reason for blogging. More often that not, the real value in what I was writing came from [...]

• music, news/current affairs, social media

  RATM Christmas Follow-up: Was It A Fix?

  12.22.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  I’ve started mentally drafting this a few times, but almost all of them just ended up with me reiterating everything I said in my ‘Futility Of Fighting Fire With Fire‘ post over on stevelawson.net. However, this evening, someone linked on Twitter to This blog post claiming that it was a campaign masterminded by Sony. And [...]

• news/current affairs, social media

  The Future of Politics is Mutual

  11.09.09 | Permalink | 38 Comments

  This is not a post about the things that are wrong with our world. This is a post about how we make them right. Of course it is not exhaustive, and by no means is it intended to be a detailed and flawless solution, in fact it openly admits that fact, because that (you will [...]

• news/current affairs, social media

  Together We’re Louder – Campaigning In the 21st Century

  10.13.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Everything has changed. And the more things change, the more they stay the same. Every time a new technology comes along, its success is largely governed by the level to which it helps us to do what we’ve always wanted to do, but have previously been unable to do properly – or at least as [...]

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