Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Google finds itself in hot water today as an Italian court has convicted three of its execs in a trial over a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied. As keen social media-moguls, the Peppermints have been in lively debate about the case – there’s no denying that this type ...
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
We Brits have always had something of a reputation across the world for incessantly discussing the weather. The current online chatter around the heavy snowfall here is nothing short of an avalanche.
Working from home, after failing miserably to dig my car out of the snow, I logged on to my ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
There was much techy-furore yesterday (a fair few @replies on Twitter to say the least) about the relaunch of Skittles.com. I’ll be honest, at first I didn’t know what was going on. I’d heard it’d relaunched, so I went to have a little look and was immensely confused when I ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Some might dismiss as alarmist the warnings of neuroscientist Susan Greenfield about social networking turning kids’ brains to mush. My worry is she might be right. It’s naïve to believe that the unprecedented, seismic changes in the way kids spend their time and interact with each other will have no ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
News this morning that social networking sites could be harming people's health has suddenly torn my loyalties. On the one hand, you’d be hard pushed to argue with Dr Aric Sigman’s claims that a lack of direct social interaction could have wide-ranging biological effects, including cancer, strokes, heart disease ...
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