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Being a woman who likes to carry essential kit for travel, I am sharing some news on what is a must have for journeys - and what I, I confess, was without. . In future, alongside requisites such as Elizabeth Arden… Continue

Some of us have been asking ourselves if social networks are nearing the maturation stage of their life cycle and so interesting to read this blog. Are social networks the internet's last big development? And how much will they change? A… Continue

Pretentious, moi? Tripped myself up by downloading the Louvre Iphone App to sit alongside my select few tools for travel and reverie. Because, as this CNET review says, its not that good.

The French are good at getting… Continue

Clay Shirky's latest blog posits a theory that authority in the digital age is becoming algorithmic

"Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authori… Continue

from LSE's Flickr commons stream

Great gurus of the internet age, such as Henry Jenkins, have challenged educational institutions to… Continue

A report for 38 minuters on last week's C&binet Forum..

On the surface, C&binet Forum was dominated by concerns about copyright. The agenda was framed to encourage the most fulsome arguments to be voiced by representatives of big players in music and publishing. And although all recognised the ne… Continue

Although I am not a woman who likes to be out of sync with modern netiquette, I think that live blogging diminishes my ability to listen and think as well as being disrespectful to the speakers. Therefore I am posting this in a quick teabreak which is a welcome quiet five minutes. The conference is… Continue

Being a woman who is attracted to Dangerous Ideas , I watched this video

of a lecture given by Susan Greenfield at the Sydney Opera House recently. Greenfi… Continue

Sir Gerry Robinson's advice to the Global Irish Economic Forum is to take decisive action and target 4 or 5 games companies from Scotland to relocate to Ireland by providing a package of support including five years of tax incentives.… Continue

Being a woman who is most concerned to behave with appropriate etiquette, I struggled to retain my composure during a gala dinner recently. My fellow guests included politicians, newspaper editors and other great and good men. The guests at each table had to complete a quiz, a sort of pub qui… Continue