It turns out that there are moves afoot to change the dialogue in the Famous Five books in order to make them more accessible to contemporary children. Some independent research has suggested that they find words like luncheon and squared (in the sense of sorted out or reconciled) difficult to get past. The initiative has [...]
The Discipline Of The Twit is just that. If you’re going to say something inside a limit of 140 characters, with syntax and resonance and everything, it is a discipline and you are a twit if you do it to the detriment of reality. But then life isn’t like that anymore. Perhaps it never was. [...]
Has come round remarkably quickly. Time has that habit of passing, regardless of what people do. The trick is to fill it with valuable stuff. Speaking of which, I opened a Twitter account just over a week ago. Couldn’t ignore it any longer. I guess the idea of it is that it provides carefully selected [...]
Construction of self is a funny thing. It’s quite clear that many people don’t do it: they appear to proceed daily without any apparent need to assess how they interface with the world. I still find myself doing quite tortuous empathic calculations about how someone might feel in response to what I’m about to do [...]
It strikes me that no explanation is needed for using and embracing technology. The people who need to justify themselves are those who have decided not to use it. Technology exists to share thoughts with the world. It’s socially acceptable to do so. Why would you not do it?