Archive for November, 2011
Selling Democracy (Slight Return)
Thursday, November 17th, 2011Writing about the influence of the Internet on pro-democracy movements earlier this year, I observed: As individual control over the flow of information rises, central control wanes. And this, obviously, is the crux of the dilemma facing businesses and governments across North Africa and throughout the world. They are belatedly coming to realise that they [...]
Mystery & Wonder
Sunday, November 6th, 2011According to Andrew Sullivan, Alexis Madrigal claims that flocking behaviour is “… a beautiful phenomenon to behold. And neither biologists nor anyone else can yet explain how starlings seem to process information and act on it so quickly.” That second sentence is just false, as even a quick visit to wikipedia is sufficient to discover: [...]