I recently provided some information for an article in a weekend paper, which I’ll reproduce in full here. The question was basically – at what age are young people ready for different technologies. Its a good question, and one that many parents would be asking themselves. The problems is – its not possible to create a technology vs age readiness table that has any real value.

A few days ago, I was on the verge of quitting Facebook. This was not about privacy. Facebook was in the throws of more bad press related to privacy, but it wasn’t that. The problem is, it’s all a bit – well, not what I want.
Maybe its my fault.  I’m hardly ever there. If my Facebook [...]

This week Martin looks at the reaction to Google mapping UK wireless routers; Lee discusses good virtual neighbours in Christchurch and Sean suggests the US Limewire court case marks the beginning of the end for peer to peer file sharing

Today, Hectors Worldlaunched a new resource. A paper webcam cover. Two actually. One for external webcams and one for the type that is built into screens.
At this point you may be wondering why you’d have a paper webcam cover.
Well. Firstly, I can explain why they’re made of paper. It takes kids too long to crochet. The Hector ones [...]

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I was asked to make a comment recently for Victoria University’s student news publication Salient about a service called Pleaserobme.com.
Pleaserobme is a self proclaimed “Hack” from Social Media consultants Forthehack based in Rijswijk, The Netherlands, which scans and parses geographical information posted by users of the FourSquare.com service on the four square site and across [...]

What if you could affect the google result when people did a name-search on you? Apparently Google Profiles will give me this option – stay tuned to see if it actually works.

NetSafe adopts smart phones and cloud based computing – it’s been a fraught week with plenty of change!

The google dashboard is promoted as a response to concerns about privacy with all the data Google is collecting. It doesn’t really give you control, and it doesn’t really endear itself to me.

Are we fighting the reality of the Industrial Age? Are there some negative impacts that we need to accept as neccessary to feel the benefits of the information age?