An interesting blog post on the subject of how, with today's technologies, we are more connected but also more alone.

Read the article here.

A useful site that lists many of the most common socialmedia sites, with direct links to the areas to delete your account.

One person's experience of a posthumous tweeting service. Read the article here.

What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely?

Inspired and Based on the wonderful book by Sherry Turkle - Alone Together.

An essay on privacy, sharing and why we as a society are ill prepared for social media. Read the essay here.

'Google, more than perhaps any other company, is aggressively putting sensors and the software to activate them into our environment.

The just-unveiled Moto X phone... has a custom microchip that allows it to listen for voice commands literally all the time, even when the phone is "asleep". Google's Chrome web browser now supports voice commands; that means it's also rolled into every Chrome OS notebook computer.

Google's face-based computer, Google Glass, responds to voice commands...voice is a dominant theme in the future of Google, and is clearly slated to make its way into every product the company makes.'

Read the full article here.