When looking at the future it’s easy to forget that we aren’t the first people to live in the present. What’s happening to us now is naturally much more real than what happened before we existed, or what has yet to exist, and it’s only human to privilege it without realising. But it’s essential to try and avoid this way of thinking if we want to avoid going over ground that’s already been well-trodden.

Channel 4 Education caused a bit of a stir last year when they announced that they were going to focus more on using the media 14 to 19 year-olds actually use, rather than continuing to make television programmes nobody was really watching. They’re planning on using a whole range of platforms, from ARGs to MySpace [...]

Internet swashbuckler Ben Hammersley has taken another step towards redeeming himself for inventing the word “podcast” with this programme for Radio 4’s Analysis on the willingness of people to disclose personal information on site like Facebook, and the implications this might have for our notions of privacy. Well worth a listen.

There’s an article in — yes — the Guardian (we do read more widely than this blog might indicate) on the inclusion of high-resolution aerial images available from 192.com (”Sharper aerial pictures spark privacy fears“). These images are, as the article title suggests, extraordinarily detailed for images in the public domain, sufficiently so that “in [...]