You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you have something to say

–

F Scott Fitzgerald

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Consistent humanity … changing world

At the recent 2013 Web Science conference one of the most worthwhile sessions was that on “How the Web will revolutionise society”. In particular, it was Nigel Shadbolt’s commentary about the inter-relationship between technology and society, and the implications for society when the availability of a commodity shifts from scarcity to abundance, that I found most thought provoking.

May 10, 2013

WebSci 2013 Paris

In the last couple of weeks I have been immersed in the world of “Web Science”, initially with a workshop on the “SOCIAM” project at the University of Southampton, and, following that, with the Web Science 2013 Conference in Paris.