On last night’s Newsnight, Made.com’s Brent Hoberman and I debated what the real commodities being sold to the public are when (if) Facebook floats on the US stock market this week.
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[Newsnight] Facebook IPO, what they're really selling and why this is creepy
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[Woman's Hour] Communication Overload
Friday December 30, 2011 @ 11:25 PM (UTC)On 30 December, I took part in a discussion about information overload on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
Here’s the blurb:
Communication OverloadMidnight on New Year’s Eve is the time when the most text messages are likely to ping around the world to our loved ones. And as we’re in the middle of the festive season we’re all contacting family and friends. With the relentless march of new technology it seems we could be reaching critical mass when it comes to communication overload. What is the brave new world of technology doing to our family and work relationships. And what does it hold for us in the future?
Jenni is joined by Aleks Krotoski; Social psychologist and writer specialising in the Internet and Dr Nicola Millard, Futurologist at BT who predicts trends in society and technology. -
[BBC] Serendipity on The Culture Show tonight!
Saturday November 05, 2011 @ 12:25 PM (UTC)Last week I interviewed Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, for The Culture Show on the BBC. Tonight at 6pm, I present the case against technological solutions that purport to produce serendipity.
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[Radio 4] Fry's English Delight: Brevity
Monday July 18, 2011 @ 09:43 AM (UTC)On Fry’s English Delight on Radio 4 today, I describe to comedian Stephen Fry how much can be explained in something that seems impossibly brief. Introducing the Internet meme.
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[Radio 4] Life in a Day review on Front Row
Tuesday June 14, 2011 @ 05:01 PM (UTC)UPDATE: here’s the audio!
This evening at 7:15pm I’m on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row arts review programme, proffering my opinion on Kevin Macdonald’s latest film, Life in a Day. It was executive produced by Ridley Scott, and tells the story of the events from one nondescript day in the human life of the planet.
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[BBC Radio 4] Infinite Monkey Cage: Six Degrees of Separation
Monday June 06, 2011 @ 01:54 PM (UTC)In one of the most terrifying experiences of my professional career, I danced my PhD (not literally, metaphorically, people) for Stephen Fry, Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Simon Singh last Monday night at the recording of Infinite Monkey Cage. I was invited to be one of the panel on the science-comedy radio show, and had the great pleasure of explaining why the subject of my research is a) interesting, b) rational and c) almost like real science (hear that, Prof Cox?).
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[The Today Programme] 5 Years of Twitter: here today, gone tomorrow?
Monday March 21, 2011 @ 11:57 AM (UTC)Twitter, the most popular microblogging platform on the Web, is five years old. But can it survive another five? I was invited onto Radio 4’s Today Programme with mydeco’s Brent Hoberman (co-founder of UK dotcom darling lastminute.com) to talk about its future.
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[The Today Programme] 5 Years of YouTube
Monday December 20, 2010 @ 06:52 AM (UTC)YouTube was five years old on Wednesday 14 December. I was interviewed by Evan Davis for The Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 about its cultural impact, and its effects on modern politics.
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[Radio 4] Infinite Monkey Cage: The Modern World (Good or Evil?)
Monday November 22, 2010 @ 09:14 PM (UTC)I managed to achieve my monthly belly laff quota in one evening – the night I recorded The Infinite Monkey Cage for BBC Radio 4, a science geek comedy panel programme hosted by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. The other panelists were chemist Tony Ryan and the hilarious Paul Foot.
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[Media] Cognitive surplus, the soma of television and being on Newsnight with Clay Shirky
Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 03:24 PM (UTC)For the next week, you can catch my appearance on last night’s BBC’s current affairs programme Newsnight with author Clay Shirky, debating the social implications of new technology. It was a great discussion that was overwhelmingly positive about the Web and what it offers, but there were a few sticking points where Clay and I disagreed. I’ll expand on the key one here.
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