via fast company. I LOL’d but then realised literacy of infographics and data visualisations has become mainstream. Which makes me even happier. I do hope that that the pilot and crew don’t need to consult the diagrams in order to get their plans into the sky. The airline is Kulala, based in South Africa, with the work produced by branding …read the rest of this article

Pew Research Center reports that older people are almost as likely to embrace technological change as young people:
…innovations in cell phones, email and online shopping are seen as changes for the better by most Americans with positive views reaching well beyond the youngest Millennial generation. These kinds of change are viewed at least as favorably by Americans in their 30s …read the rest of this article

Just a quick note to point out the publisher-sanctioned free PDF available of The Art of Community by Jono Bacon. It’s a guide to building and running online communities and social networks. Bacon is the community manager for the Ubuntu operating system, the dominance of which compared to other Linux variants is arguably down to the strength of its online …read the rest of this article

In a story from the Onion news network, an archaeologist discovers traces of an ancient network of people known as Friendster.

Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of ‘Friendster’ Civilization
Not so much ‘fake’ news on this occasion. More like news that hasn’t happened yet. I can see this being broadcast 100 years from now.

For your geek buddies.

Found here, where there are plenty more, available to buy as cards.
Have an excellent Christmas, if I don’t write again before then.

I am always suspicious of Internet ‘experts’ who pay homage to the digital natives idea. The idea that young people are not only generationally different from me, but also are psychologically different.
Perhaps it’s my age. Being over-40, I react badly to anything that suggests that I’m not long from the care home. But I also genuinely believe that dividing the …read the rest of this article

Life just got better. At the end of last week, Google announced that its personalised search had now become available to ‘signed-out’ users.
What does that mean?
Well, personalised search means that Google uses its history of what you have searched for before to provide more relevant results for subsequent search queries. It records everything you’ve searched for and every result you’ve …read the rest of this article

I was in Venice last week. I’m afraid to say that it looks a bit different.

In the middle of the picture above you can just make out the Bridge of Sighs – it’s the thing in the middle that isn’t an advert for a bank.
Below is the Museo Correr end of St Mark’s Square.

After picking myself up, I went to …read the rest of this article