Posted on March 11th, 2010
Written by Dr Mariann Hardey
Happy? with the Web I mean. Because it strikes me we are not. The latest research from bizreport speculates that individuals are experiencing increasing levels of ‘web stress’. Whilst the run of social networks will have it that everyone knows everything about everybody and this IS a good thing. It seems that such networking could have the run of us.
Posted on March 10th, 2010
Written by Dr Mariann Hardey
In the wings looms heavily a general election. You hadn’t noticed? So far by the leaders of the political parties there has been limited (success) social media engagement. So Facebook or Twitter; Tory, LibDem or Labour: Which is it to be?
Posted on March 9th, 2010
Written by Dr Mariann Hardey
Online, whose responsibility is it then to safeguard us?
It is unrealistic to propose a social network lock down. Web profiles can reveal (and also hide) so much. This would be a darkness falling on personal freedoms at the loss of the flow and expression of social information. Many of those incidental connections simply would not be possible without the freedom to create Profiles, send requests, respond and grow with our networks.
Posted on March 8th, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
Have you been onto Bing recently? If you have then you may have noticed in the bottom right hand corner of the site there’s a call to action for their users, to sign up and support Sports Relief through the use of Bing search. For every 10 searches you make on Bing they will donate [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2010
Written by Dr Mariann Hardey
Who/what will be 2010s key influencer’s? In the run up to the General Election maybe it will be the highs (and no doubt lows) of politics and politicians. This time we have political ‘news’ and ‘views’ via their Twitter feeds. Here’s the crunch. First are we really that interested in what they tweet?
Posted on February 26th, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
If you remember, last year brought the very first Ada Lovelace Day, Founded by Suw Charman-Anderson where loads and loads of bloggers, male and female wrote about their geeky, science, technology and mathematical inspirations. Well it’s coming back round again.
Keep the 24th March at the forefront of your mind for a blog post about who [...]
Posted on January 31st, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
A short while ago I came across a fantastic little tweet courtesy of my lovely followers! It was all about a new board game which I’m hoping to get my hands on to review and see how good it is. In essence it’s a board game that teaches the fundamentals of object orientated programming through [...]
Posted on December 31st, 2009
Written by Sarah Blow
Since everyone has been doing their decade blog posts I thought it might be a good idea to look back through the last 10 years of women in technology and see how the industry has changed during this time.
Many of you already know that I tend to keep an eye on what’s in the news [...]
Posted on December 16th, 2009
Written by Sarah Blow
Last month we launched the Manga Competition for people to win one of two copies of the Manga Guide to Calculus courtesy of No Starch Press who are the publishers of the Manga Guide series. Whilst this competition was going on @decisionstats came up with a fantastic suggestion! That we should try to get companies [...]
Posted on November 30th, 2009
Written by Dr Mariann Hardey
Our freedoms as they (seemingly) are on the web: fluid, multi-dimensional, creative, and even (at times) considerate and assertive, have, I must warn you, only a limited lifespan.
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