Trying to write something humous on Valentines Day is actually quite difficult to do, I guess I’ll just have to write about random shit again, I guess that’ll be for the best. Today (well yesterday actually because Kris was being …
First Post of 2017
Been krising and chrossing for 3 months without posting here so I thought I would just check in with y’all and share my New Years Resolutions. New Year, New Me aye. So it is 2017 and I have yet to …
Amazon Ecwho?
The way that materiality is now conceptualised transcends the homogenisation of space and time in the notion that information can be accessed immediately. We can now instead of asking our parents a stupid question, ask the cloud of which can …
I Google Myself, What Of It
To think that everything that is posted on the internet is completely private and safe is extremely naïve thinking. Your information of which you post online is readily available for anyone to find, even your friends and family. Googling yourself …
A Hackers Bread and Butter
Hackers like what they do, and they’re good at it. Individuals have hobbies because they are interested and enjoy whatever it is they are undertaking. Is that not the same with hacktivists and hackers? The notion of ‘The Game’ (there …
#StopGamerGate: One Tweet to Ruin them All
From birth we are told that our ‘actions speak louder’ than our words, so what do our tweets, posts and online presences fall into? The internet is a powerful source, not only does it allow for the freedom of any …
Second Semester Break Thoughts
So it is that time of year again. Its transitioning from a life of frostbite, hot chocolate, blankets with books and movies and the best thing of all the ending of all my favourite anime, to a journey of summer …
You know what they say, 140 Characters can say a Thousand Words
Twitter as a facet of social media and the new paradigm of user aggregation, curation and production encapsulates the idea of collective intelligence demonstrating itself. Allowing for the leveraging of power law distributions, the long tail and the aggregate as a concept. …
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