Once again it's June the 25th. I spent most of the day doing the same thing I did this time last year and this time the year before last.. I had a picnic at the Grave of Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell. Today is his birthday and for the last couple of years I've met with Dr John Perivolaris to pay our respects to the great writer and talk about the years events around surveillance and civil Continue Reading
Episode 44 – Kiss Privacy Goodbye
Back on June the 25th, for the second year running myself and Dr John Perivolaris, visited George Orwell's grave for his birthday. This year we were accompanied by Phil Campbell and Brian Jones and as we picnicked in honour of Eric Arthur Blair, we also discussed our ever diminishing civil liberties, asking what is public and wondering If George Orwell could ever have known that it would not be Continue Reading
Social Media Picnic
[Please join us every year on the 25th of June at Orwell's grave. Ping @Documentally] This year (2013) it's a Tuesday! Let's discuss civil liberties, CCTV, privacy and surveillance in the company of Orwell. [this blog post was written 2008] The annual meeting at Orwell's grave started in 2007. Whilst on Twitter I mentioned in passing that I was thinking about holding a social media picnic at Continue Reading
Episode 28 – Facebook
(If you have not subscribed to the podcast already, you can listen to the mp3 here or read the text below. There are some great tunes on the podcast though..) Facebook - innocent social networking website, or high tech spy network? The web is generational, progressive. We have truly hit web 2.0. Nowadays we acquire our social-technological skills through the internet, less face-to-face and Continue Reading