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My TEDx talk on “lessons from ancient social media” 19 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm
The video of my TEDxOxbridge talk on “lessons from ancient social media”, based on my forthcoming book “Writing on the Wall” is finally available! I’m quite pleased with it, even if they did cut ou...
Share it like Cicero: How Roman authors used social networking 21 Jun 2013 | 06:18 pm
One of the stories I tell in “Writing on the Wall” is about the way the Roman book-trade worked. There were no printing presses, so copying of books, which took the form of multiple papyrus rolls, was...
Share it like Cicero: How Roman authors used social networking 21 Jun 2013 | 06:18 pm
One of the stories I tell in “Writing on the Wall” is about the way the Roman book-trade worked. There were no printing presses, so copying of books, which took the form of multiple papyrus rolls, was...
How commonplace books were like Tumblr and Pinterest 10 May 2013 | 04:37 am
Shared journals were an early form of social media, and the mass-media era may have been a historical aberration. These were two of the claims made by Lee Humphreys, a communications and media researc...
How commonplace books were like Tumblr and Pinterest 10 May 2013 | 04:37 am
Shared journals were an early form of social media, and the mass-media era may have been a historical aberration. These were two of the claims made by Lee Humphreys, a communications and media researc...
Behold, the OracleBot 15 Mar 2013 | 03:19 am
Having built PumpkinBot last year, Ella and I have just completed another Arduino-powered creation for her Latin homework. She wrote a long essay on the Oracle of Delphi, and to accompany it we decide...
Behold, the OracleBot 15 Mar 2013 | 03:19 am
Having built PumpkinBot last year, Ella and I have just completed another Arduino-powered creation for her Latin homework. She wrote a long essay on the Oracle of Delphi, and to accompany it we decide...
My next book: “Writing on the Wall” 20 Feb 2013 | 03:40 pm
My next book, “Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2,000 Years” will be published in October 2013. You can read a chunk of the introduction, which explains what the book is about, here, and yo...
My next book: “Writing on the Wall” 20 Feb 2013 | 03:40 pm
My next book, “Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2,000 Years” will be published in October 2013. You can read a chunk of the introduction, which explains what the book is about, here, and yo...
Behold, the PumpkinBot 31 Oct 2012 | 09:32 pm
Together with my daughter Ella I’ve been working on a special project for Halloween, which we call PumpkinBot. We have just installed it on the front porch to amuse (or terrify) visiting children as t...
