The ‘Digital Bounty Hunter’
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 6:03 in Featured Stories, Others | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
When we set up the Web Coherence blog the idea was not only to observe coherent behaviour on the Internet, but also to propose the creation of new creatures. We start with the mix of the internet and the mobile... (Continue reading)
Addicted to the Web
Written on 2 Apr, 2009 at 12:24 in Featured Stories, Others | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Many real-world behaviours have found their way onto the Web. People with various addictive personality traits are being drawn to the Web like moths to a flame. A 15-year-old Swedish boy collapsed with epileptic seizures after a marathon 15-hour World... (Continue reading)
Profiling: a creature of the shadows
Written on 1 Apr, 2009 at 6:37 in Featured Stories, Profiling | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Another creature lurking in the shadows of the Internet ecosystem is Profiling. Profiling can involve expert systems, neural networks, statistical analysis, Fourier Analysis etc. No matter what the sophistication of the underlying approach, profiling software always falls into two separate... (Continue reading)
Predators: Internet Scams
Written on 31 Mar, 2009 at 11:46 in Emails, Featured Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
There are some very dangerous predators prowling around the web. Take for example advance-fee frauds, also known as the Nigerian scam, or the 419 scam, named after Article 419 of the Nigerian Legal Code. Check it out on the web... (Continue reading)
Mass e-mailing as a defensive weapon in the workplace
Written on 30 Mar, 2009 at 8:07 in Best Practices, Emails, Featured Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
From the best practice entries on this blog you may be getting the impression that I am recommending you stop mass e-mailing. Well not quite! There is one situation that I recommend to all my students: using mass e-mails as... (Continue reading)
Twitter Clatter
Written on 26 Mar, 2009 at 13:17 in Featured Stories, Twitter, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 2 comments so far
clatter … clatter … clatter … “Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen” … clatter … clatter … clatter … “Welcome to the London School of Economics” … clatter … clatter … clatter … “and the opening session of the Communia Conference”... (Continue reading)
Information is Good?
I’ve just come out of a Internet conference session where most of the delegates were proselytizing the merits of maximizing the amount of public information disseminated for free on the Web. They see a Brave New World, with the Internet... (Continue reading)
Intellectual Property Rights: Vultures on the Web
Written on 24 Mar, 2009 at 20:55 in Featured Stories, Intellectual Property Rights | viewed times and users have made 1 comment so far
I had been asked to give a keynote speech at the prestigious Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas. My topic was uncertainty. I would use an example to show that even if the technology is simple, it becomes highly complex... (Continue reading)
Money makes the Web go around
Written on 24 Mar, 2009 at 9:05 in Others | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
There are two phenomena that I find particularly fascinating, namely money (don’t we all), and addictive behaviour (my last book was a biography of a drunk). Imagine my surprise when I recently found these two topic coming seamlessly together on... (Continue reading)
Email experiments – Starting Simply
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 11:28 in Our Experiments | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Many of your experiments will be using e-mails for feedback, data collection and communication. Thus it is essential that you create a brand new group of e-mails for each new experiment, so that the data from any one experiment doesn’t... (Continue reading)
