I had the most delightful experience in the world of web this week, and by “delightful”, of course I mean harrowing, potentially damaging professionally and crushingly embarrassing.

Updating my LinkedIn profile, with one careless click of a button, I accidentally asked everyone in my contact book to be a connection of mine.

Everyone. No filters applied, no – . . . → Read More: It’s amazing what you can accomplish as a dunce

I took a domestic flight in the United States yesterday, and was intrigued to find wi-fi available on the plane.

It’s extraordinary. US airlines have been struggling financially to the point that customer service agents are like unicorns – a mysterious animal no-one quite believes exists. On a flight Miami-LAX, there was one television screen per hundred . . . → Read More: Joining the mile-high (online) club

It used to be that you could bury a time capsule, or hide some old love letters under your linoleum floor for fun.

In the digital age, New Yorkers are sticking USB sticks in concrete on the sides of buildings to share information with others.

.Net magazine has published a fascinating interview with the brains behind the ‘Dead . . . → Read More: Dead drops the new message in a bottle