[Tech Weekly] Dear Yahoo!: A letter from a person who wishes to remain anonymous
In May 2013, Yahoo! announced that it had bought the immensely popular blogging service Tumblr for 1.1bn USD. I’m an avid Tumblr-er (and another and another) and I couldn’t resist writing a letter to the search/content/web dinosaur explaining why it was important that they let it be.
[Tech Weekly] CB Radio: the Facebook of the 1970s
[Event] State Library of Victoria's Digital Society Series
Untangling the Web: the pre-order kerfuffle
Despite emails from Amazon to the contrary (twice!), I assure you that Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing To You will be released on 4 July this year.
[DML Central] Lying About the Past: T Mills Kelly explains the origin of an internet hoax
[Event] DATE CHANGE! Analog lessons from masters of the senses: the feel, smell and sound of immersion

Aleks Krotoski
is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human science series and The Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast.
Her new book, Untangling the Web, based on her Guardian and Observer column, will be published in April 2013.
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Untangling the Web eBook: Aleks Krotoski
Well heck. Seems the book is already available on Amazon.co.uk’s Kindle Store.
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BBC Radio 4's Digital Human: Series 3
The third series of BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human started on 1 April. This time around, we’re looking outside ourselves, at who we are at the beginning of the 21st century. You can follow all the background research and catch some exclusive interview clips at our official reporter’s notebook on Tumblr.
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