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How commonplace books were like Tumblr and Pinterest 10 May 2013 | 12:37 am
Shared journals were an early form of social media, and the mass-media era may have been a historical aberration. These were two of the claims made by Lee Humphreys, a communications and media researc...
Behold, the OracleBot 14 Mar 2013 | 11:19 pm
Having built PumpkinBot last year, Ella and I have just completed another Arduino-powered creation for her Latin homework. She wrote a long essay on the Oracle of Delphi, and to accompany it we decide...
My next book: “Writing on the Wall” 20 Feb 2013 | 10:40 am
My next book, “Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2,000 Years” will be published in October 2013. You can read a chunk of the introduction, which explains what the book is about, here, and yo...
Behold, the PumpkinBot 31 Oct 2012 | 05:32 pm
Together with my daughter Ella I’ve been working on a special project for Halloween, which we call PumpkinBot. We have just installed it on the front porch to amuse (or terrify) visiting children as t...
My other project 14 Aug 2012 | 01:58 am
As well as writing a new book this year, I’ve also been making an album with my band, Sebastopol. It’s a pretty long and drawn out process, but the heavy lifting was done in just a few days in a basem...
The distractions of social media, 1673 style 12 Jun 2012 | 07:49 pm
Here’s an extract from “Cicero’s Web”, my forthcoming book (due 2013) on the prehistory of social media. (A previous extract, about Martin Luther and social media, is here .) You know how you can easi...
How Luther went viral 31 Mar 2012 | 10:38 pm
The wheels are turning on my new book. “How Luther went viral” is an article I wrote for the Christmas issue of The Economist , extracted from one of the book’s early chapters, on the use of social me...
The Thrill Electric 30 Oct 2011 | 06:11 pm
Online romance and intrigue, Victorian style! Channel 4 has just launched what it calls an “enhanced comic”, “The Thrill Electric” , which was inspired in part by my book “The Victorian Internet” . I’...
My new book: and now for the hard part 8 Sep 2011 | 03:46 pm
Yes, I’m working on another book, this time on the history of the idea of social media, from Roman times to the internet. I’ve been researching this for more than a year already, and there was quite a...
What the new iPhone probably won’t include (but should) 7 Jun 2010 | 05:50 am
AS THE futurologist Paul Saffo likes to observe, most ideas take 20 years to become an overnight success. The basic technology is often worked out, but without someone to champion it, it spreads only ...
