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I'm back

October 16, 2017
Well, at least I am going to use this platform to describe a few things I have been thinking about and working while I look for work in Sydney.
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The News will follow us

November 4, 2015
A little fantasy about how digital journalism could change. The news will follow us, wherever we go.
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Teach by example

August 31, 2015
It's a good idea to teach by example. Here is my QR Code for my WeChat account      
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Facebook does not understand friendship

December 1, 2014
As we further hand over the management of our social relationships to Facebook, perhaps we need to pause for a moment and consider whether Facebook understands friendship.
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holy crap, my world is flat!

March 19, 2014
This realization has crept upon me. Even though I've talked about the flatness of information structures before, I'm seeing a strong pattern emerge which is, well, kind of blowing my mind. Keep in mind, I am a serious structuralist.
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Eventual inconsistency

January 16, 2014
A friend just sent me a link on 'Eventual consistency', a term used to describe a problem of syncing data between cloud servers. This was in response to some bizarre behaviour I have been noticing in Facebook. The term itself, eventual consistency, reminded me of Italo Calvino, for many reasons. Check out pretty much any of his books (If on a winter's night a traveler) or stories (t zero) and you'll know how important time was to him. His final work was a lecture he was unable to give (due to a problem he had with time), entitled "Six Memos for the Next Millennium". In the lecture, he outlined the six important ideas (or values) that needed to be addressed...
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