TheWayoftheWeb

The always interesting Marcus Brown has initiated  ‘Social Psycho, a Creative Commons project’ – which is a crowdsourced work/works of fiction around some interesting questions relating to our increasingly social and networked world.
Social Psycho
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Dave Cushman has already started thinking about it a bit. I’m not sure I share his optimism, [...]

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For some reason, when I started getting into blogging and social media in a semi-formal way, I decided to use the following picture as my avatar everywhere:
As a result, at recent events I’ve chatted to several people who knew and chatted with my online identity, but didn’t realise it was me for quite a while.
Which [...]

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Just had a boost on a wet Tuesday morning – a name search on Google has always brought me up fairly quickly – but mainly because I worked on a pretty big website within it’s niche.
But having registered www.danthornton.net, and done pretty much nothing with it, I’ve ended up with the eighth result! Take that, [...]

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Wednesday saw the latest meeting of MeasurementCamp (Big thanks to @willmcinnes for setting it all up and @helenium for sorting out the venue at Dare Digital). It was a bit strange, as I made it to the inaugral event, and then missed the next three for various reasons. There were quite a few new faces [...]

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