Matt Cornock

Category: Digital Literacy

  • Trust or privacy?

    This is a follow-up post to the Top 10 Google Streetview Pros and Cons post. A lot of the arguments on the internet still focus on privacy issues. However, how do web users consider their own web security?

  • Prediction: The computer will go the same way as the steam engine

    Computers will go the same way as steam engines. That’s my latest off-the-wall prediction (with no real scientific backing). Whilst recently looking at how institutions and organisations are cutting their energy consumption, it became unsurprisingly obvious that lighting and heating had a third energy consumption counterpart: that of computers (and the associated hardware).

  • The tale of a digital hoarder: Videos

    Videos are the new photos, in much the same way that black is the new black. For many, taking a video of an event is now just as easy (if not easier) than taking a photo. This is why the vast majority of mobile phones have a video function as well as a photo function.…

  • The tale of a digital hoarder: Photos

    In this post, I look at the way our attitude to storing photos has changed as a result of the ease and low-cost of digital storage which encourages the digital photo hoarder.Two questionsHow many photos did you use to take with your 35mm film camera? 24 or 36 exposure? A film reel or two a…

  • The tale of a digital hoarder: Introduction

    Digital hoarding: The keeping and collecting of all your digital possessions, forever and ever. It’s keeping a copy of everything that has ever passed through your computer, on your screen or in your virtual existence. Much like ‘physical’ hoarding, everything is pretty much kept in a crazy jumble, and with one explosion it’ll be destroyed…

  • Googlemail down (again) – The curse of GMail

    OK, so this is a hurried post relating to the current Googlemail outage (something to do with cows and wind?), however consider the following points:

  • Top 10: Email inbox management techniques

    Here’s some Top 10 Tips to manage your email inbox:

  • Top 10: Tips for using social networking sites

    This list looks at ways in which you can better use social networking sites, including things to consider before you post to protect yourself against professional vs. personal boundary issues.

  • Their news, us news, me news: newspapers are old news

    The speed at which news is classed as ‘new’ has changed. Newspapers simply can’t keep up with the pace of life that the current Internet age provides. The scope of news has changed dramatically too, especially with the concepts of Twitter and (as one example) BBC News ‘Have Your Say’ feature on web stories.