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Trooping the Colour

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Living so close to Buckingham Palace is particularly useful when one loves parades.  And this country loves marching.  I went down to the Mall this morning to watch Trooping the Colour, a ceremony marking the…

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Your password is terrible

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If your password is a word, you’ve got a problem. Yes, even if you replaced some of the letters with numbers.  Mother’s maiden name as a “secret question”?  Not so secret.  We’ve all read the…

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Alone together

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A few years ago, a friend and I read an article in the New York Times challenging readers to take a “digital vacation” away from their communications devices.  If you’re anything like most Americans today,…

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My iPhone tracks me

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The world today was rocked by the sensational revelation that the iPhone is tracking our whereabouts and storing the coordinates in a file on its operating system.  I found this terribly fascinating, unlike most of…

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The Graduate 4.0

The Graduate 4.0. The London School of Economics Students' Union. London.

I was asked to photograph the fourth and final party of the LSE Students’ Union Postgraduate Assembly last night.  It was held in LSE’s Quad, a café and meeting place by day and club by…

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Campaign for General Secretary

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I thought I had finished my time in student government at American, but I found myself thrust back into the mix last month with a friend’s campaign for the LSE Students’ Union top spot.  We…

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Funding censor busting technologies

Alec Ross speaking last night on 21st Century Statecraft

Alec Ross, senior adviser for innovation to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visited LSE last night to discuss the State Department’s implementation of “21st Century Statecraft“, a relatively new initiative to better integrate “innovation”…

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Paywalls don’t play nice

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I love sharing news articles with my friends.  Email, social media, Google Reader, even paper clippings…news is meant to be social and articles take on more meaning when sent with a personal context.  Some news…

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Can Social Media Predict The Future?

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Imagine you’re a political strategist in 1992.  Some consultant walks in the door and says they have access to the aggregate, real-time opinions of millions of Americans.  He describes the power of his tool as…

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Home for Christmas

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