You should probably know, dear readers, that a journalist information warrant to secure data retention for this website does not exist and is not currently being applied for. This statement may now render me liable to two years in an Australian prison. Sorry to any regular readers who don't like partisan rants. Leave the page now. Normal service … Continue reading Data retention: an unworkable law devised in bad faith
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Guest post coming up
Dan, Thanks for your interesting message. I'd certainly like to make a 'guest post' of it. It fits very well with the next piece coming up here on the London riots - but of course you say things that hadn't even occurred to me. For example the whole idea of a market place of ideas … Continue reading Guest post coming up
Understanding Society
This blog, by Daniel Little, chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, I like.
Fourcultures – the most popular posts of 2009
Many thanks to everyone who's read these pages over the year that's now ending. Fourcultures is now being read more than 2,000 times a month. And just in case you missed them, the most popular posts of 2009 are as follows: The Four Cultures of Marketing Ethics Grid-Group Cultural Theory: a way of trying not … Continue reading Fourcultures – the most popular posts of 2009
What are your friends worth?
Adam L Penenberg has created the perfect illustration for his new book Viral Loop. It’s a Facebook app that tells you exactly how much in dollars you and your network of friends are worth to Facebook. How could you resit using it? Here's a book extract. And here's the Fast Company article that started it.
Ten Thousand Views of Fourcultures
Quite unheralded, this website has achieved a small milestone. Yes, one of you kindly gave Fourcultures its ten thousandth view. If Fourcultures mentioned popular blog-friendly things, this would clearly be extremely small-beer, but since we focus on Grid-Group Cultural Theory, it's an achievement of sorts... Thanks for reading and commenting. Here's to the next ten … Continue reading Ten Thousand Views of Fourcultures
The Social Sciences – two ways of looking at a chess board
At Crooked Timber there's a nice reference to Italo Calvino's great book Invisible Cities, in which there's an allusion to the different ways we try to make sense of the world.
Normal service is about to be resumed
Thanks for staying put while my computer had a very big melt down, while I reset my system with Ubuntu, and while floods and storms meant my broadband connection was down for several days. It's enough to make me embarrassed to be mentioning the phrase 'resilient systems'. But fear not, Fourcultures is back online and … Continue reading Normal service is about to be resumed
Without the vowels?
The last sentence of this is the funniest thing I've heard this week.
Twitter at last
Now Twitter is available on WordPress.com sites I might just give it a go. This article got me interested. But why say something in 140 characters when you can say it in 500 words or more? Brevity: it's overrat
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