Is your information correct?
Written on 2 Aug, 2009 at 15:43 in Emails, Featured Stories, Others, Our Experiments, Profiling | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
How easy or difficult do you find hunting email addresses, phone numbers or social networking profiles of a person you wish to know about? I know you would Google out their names and look out for maximum amount of information... (Continue reading)
Wildfire on the Web
Written on 7 May, 2009 at 21:04 in Featured Stories, Others | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Another topic that fascinates me is how rumours spread over the Internet. On April 1st 2003, All Fools Day, someone at CNN thought it a good joke to post a spurious story about the assassination of Bill Gates in Los... (Continue reading)
How are the Mighty Fallen?
Written on 20 Apr, 2009 at 10:32 in Featured Stories, Others | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Mike Morgan has just received a cease-and-desist notice from the mighty Goldman Sachs; GoDaddy has locked his domain names. ‘Mike who?’ I can hear you ask. I didn’t know about him either until an article appeared in the Daily Telegraph... (Continue reading)
Your Web sins will find you out!
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 6:06 in Featured Stories, Others | viewed times and users have made 3 comments so far
The Daily Mail headline screams out “Girls at Risk.” Apparently young girls are being incited by friends to post provocative pictures of themselves on Facebook, Bebo, MySpace etc., … because it’s cool! What are these silly adolescents thinking? They are... (Continue reading)
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)
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)
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)
