It is something more important. It is a thank you note. And a note of encouragement. It is a thank you to @arjantupan for sending me a handwritten thank you note. Not the thank you - it really was unnecessary. But for handwriting it. In this age of technology mediated communication, where sending out messages … Continue reading This is not a real blog post

I made my first crowd funding investment. It’s a very small investment, but I’m quite excited. This post reports on research examining ‘How and why consumers turn into crowd-funding participants’. Perhaps you are a seasoned investor. Perhaps you had a go (or several) at crowd funding, already. Not me. I have been looking at this … Continue reading A taste of crowd funding

Sidneyeve Matrix is an academic based in Canada. On Twitter, she is known as @sidneyeve and has over 17,000 followers – perhaps you are one of them, in which case, great! If you aren’t, read on. There is a reason why @sidneyeve has more than 17,000 followers. She shares great excellent content on the impact … Continue reading #followfriday: @sidneyeve

The UK government has announced the intention to monitor the calls and online activity of everybody in the UK. In this post, I look at how profiling - like the one proposed by the government - is done. I confess: When I saw the news headlines, on April 1st, I thought that it was an … Continue reading Of behaviours, signals and profiles

I wonder if people need to capture and share evidence of a moment, in order to feel that they have lived it. I am on my way back from a concert. Around me, people were snapping pictures with their smartphones, which they quickly shared with others in their social networks. Look at the man on … Continue reading If you didn’t share it, did you live it?

Chances are that you are struggling to fit everything you want to do in the 24 hours of the day. And Twitter may not be helping there, because of the all the interesting content coming your way (OK, OK – and lots of useless stuff, too). So, this week, my #followfriday recommendation goes to @TMNinja, … Continue reading #followfriday: @TMNinja

The headlines today (and my Twitter and Facebook feeds) tell me that if I eat chocolate, I’ll stay slim… but only if I eat chocolate regularly. Good news? No, not really. It’s just the old mistake of confusing correlation with causation. Drop that chocolate bar, and read on. Several news outlets are reporting that a … Continue reading Chocolate: Correlation, Causation and Misinformation

As I write this post, details are starting to emerge about the man suspected of killing 7 people in 3 separate attacks in the area of Toulouse, south of France (for instance, see BBC article here). The details echo a familiar theme. This is someone who had come to the attention of law enforcement and … Continue reading Surveillance, profiling and terrorism