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[loose wire blog] Anticipating the wave train of AI
July 2, 2024
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[loose wire blog] getting to grips with our AI fetish
March 27, 2024
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[loose wire] Yes, we should care about Julian Assange
February 26, 2024
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[how journalists think] Destroying the brand to save it
February 16, 2024
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[how journalists think] from peckham angel to devil: Camila and the journalist
January 18, 2024
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[loose wire] Politics, polarisation and pity parties
January 15, 2024
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[how journalists think] Why did we ignore the UK's biggest miscarriage of justice?
January 10, 2024
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[how journalists think] the brutal economics of investigative journalism
January 2, 2024
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[loose wire] bubblenomics
December 20, 2023
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Another way of looking at our new overlords
November 13, 2023
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Why all this talk of an AI catastrophe
November 2, 2023
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[loose wire] Where are we in the GPT food chain?
April 4, 2023
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[loose wire] are we ready for an AI arms race?
February 20, 2023
Dear Subscriber, it’s me again, harping on about ChatGPT and its implications. I guess I just feel something momentous has happened, and everyone is stuck on...
[loose wire] Chatting our way into trouble
February 6, 2023
Dear Subscriber, my second in what is likely to be a series exploring implications of ChatGPT that are either played down or ignored by the AI community....
The Real Threat from AI
January 22, 2023
Dear *|FNAME|*, hope this finds you well, and best wishes for the new (lunar) year! This piece is a little on the long side, but I hope you’ll forgive the...
[loose wire] What Lies Ahead?
January 3, 2022
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[loose wire] Vertical histories
September 8, 2021
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[loose wire] Vertical histories
September 8, 2021
_How we shoot and watch video is changing, and with it the way we engage with the world _ The two iconic images of the fall of Kabul involve a C-17 taking...
[loose wire] beware the theatre of digital first
July 14, 2021
Dear Subscriber, hope you’re well; here’s an off-the-cuff offering about something I am beginning to feel a bit more conflicted about — how digital newcomers...
[loose wire] why big-name apps are stuck in the core
May 18, 2021
Dear Subscriber, I hope you've been well. Here's a piece (apologies for the silence) about software. It's not a topic that grabs all of us, so I quite...
[loose wire] can i be the first to report that social media is dead?
February 26, 2021
Dear *|FNAME|*, I hope this finds you well. Here's another doom and gloom piece, this time about social media. I'm afraid it doesn't have much history in it,...
[loose wire] can i be the first to report that social media is dead?
February 25, 2021
Dear *|FNAME|*, I hope this finds you well. Here's another doom and gloom piece, this time about social media. I'm afraid it doesn't have much history in it,...
[loose wire] sensing our way out of interaction impoverishment
January 12, 2021
Dear *|FNAME|*, hope you're well. This week's column is about the state of play in how we interact with our devices. Perhaps I'm being unfair but I feel...
[loose wire] the road out of covid
December 18, 2020
Dear *|FNAME|*, I hope this finds you well. I had hoped to write a positive, uplifting piece for possibly the last email this year, but I'm not sure that...
[loose wire] the road out of covid
December 17, 2020
Dear *|FNAME|*, I hope this finds you well. I had hoped to write a positive, uplifting piece for possibly the last email this year, but I'm not sure that...
[loose wire] addicted
October 22, 2020
Dear Subscriber, this week is a bit of a rant with no attempted humour to leaven it. It's not exactly personal, but it does try to shine a light on the...
[loose wire] addicted
October 21, 2020
Dear Subscriber, this week is a bit of a rant with no attempted humour to leaven it. It's not exactly personal, but it does try to shine a light on the...
[loose wire] the new battleground: communities
October 6, 2020
Dear Subscriber, I realise your mind might be on other things with the news about Donald Trump, but in case you're looking for alternative reading, here's my...
[loose wire] the new battleground: communities
October 2, 2020
Dear Subscriber, I realise your mind might be on other things with the news about Donald Trump, but in case you're looking for alternative reading, here's my...
[loose wire] is regulation a solution to facebook?
September 21, 2020
Dear Subscriber, hope September is being kind to you; for me, another week, another broadside at our age of technopolies. This one is less analysis and more...
[loose wire] is regulation a solution to facebook?
September 18, 2020
Dear Subscriber, hope September is being kind to you; for me, another week, another broadside at our age of technopolies. This one is less analysis and more...
[loose wire] how the internet went wrong
September 3, 2020
Dear Subscriber, this week's offering is a piece I was commissioned to write for The Druk Journal an English-language scholarly journal discussing policy...
[loose wire] how the internet went wrong
September 2, 2020
Dear Subscriber, this week's offering is a piece I was commissioned to write for The Druk Journal an English-language scholarly journal discussing policy...
[loose wire blog] the digitally ass backwards age
August 28, 2020
Dear Subscriber, hope you're having a half decent week. Apologies for the Americanism but 'arse' just didn't seem to fit for this one. With all the noise now...
[loose wire blog] the digitally ass backwards age
August 27, 2020
Dear Subscriber, hope you're having a half decent week. Apologies for the Americanism but 'arse' just didn't seem to fit for this one. With all the noise now...
[loose wire] one less word, another brick in the wall
August 11, 2020
Dear Subscriber, another week, another blogpost, and again on what I might politely term technopolistic overreach. Or I suppose you could call it protecting...
[loose wire] one less word, another brick in the wall
August 7, 2020
Dear Subscriber, another week, another blogpost, and again on what I might politely term technopolistic overreach. Or I suppose you could call it protecting...
[loose wire] were we ever free of walled gardens?
August 3, 2020
Dear Subscriber, happy Eid al-Adha, and I hope you and your family are well. Thanks for all the emails about recent columns, some really interesting points...
[loose wire] were we ever free of walled gardens?
July 31, 2020
Dear Subscriber, happy Eid al-Adha, and I hope you and your family are well. Thanks for all the emails about recent columns, some really interesting points...
[loose wire] coming to terms with some, well, terms
July 17, 2020
Dear Subscriber, hope you're doing ok. This week's column is possibly not the most exciting topic, but it's one I wanted to get out of the way before...
[loose wire] coming to terms with some, well, terms
July 16, 2020
Dear Subscriber, hope you're doing ok. This week's column is possibly not the most exciting topic, but it's one I wanted to get out of the way before...
[loose wire] Google, browsers and the illusion of choice
July 10, 2020
Dear *|FNAME|*, greetings. Here is my latest piece, the first of a few about the internet landscape has come to be dominated by a select few. The names might...
[loose wire] Google, browsers and the illusion of choice
July 9, 2020
Dear *|FNAME|*, greetings. Here is my latest piece, the first of a few about the internet landscape has come to be dominated by a select few. The names might...
[loose wire] post-covid, working from home is going to get ugly
July 6, 2020
Dear Subscriber, here's another piece (well actually, three posts stitched together because they're one, really) which hopefully might interest you. It's...
[loose wire] post-covid, working from home is going to get ugly
July 2, 2020
Dear Subscriber, here's another piece (well actually, three posts stitched together because they're one, really) which hopefully might interest you. It's...
[LooseWire Blog] Covid and the Demise of Distance
May 18, 2020
Dear Subscriber, hope you're all well and staying safe. This week I have tried to see the positives in some sad family news, exploring whether Covid-19 might...
How A Twitter Scrap, and Covid-19, Reveal a Disruption In Process
May 8, 2020
Dear Subscriber, hope you and your nearest are coping OK. Another blog post on software, this week, but with a bit of Covid crackdown crystal ball gazing...
ICYMI from the LooseWire Blog: The Changes A-coming
March 24, 2020
Dear Subscriber, I hope you and your loved ones are healthy and safe. Here's an offering on where we might go next, or at least a warning on predicting that....
[LooseWire Blog] The Changes A-coming
March 23, 2020
Dear Subscriber, I hope you and your loved ones are healthy and safe. Here's an offering on where we might go next, or at least a warning on predicting that....
[LooseWire Blog] How do subscriptions fare in a recession?
March 9, 2020
Dear Subscriber, hope you're staying safe and well. Recently, I wrote about how the subscription economy fares in a recession. I’ve also included links to a...
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