Category: Thoughts

A “replacement” for the Internet, Web 3.x, metaspace, metaverse, metauniverse, NFTs, persistent virtual presence, augmented and virtual reality. Lots of words and phrases to describe the continuing cultural and technical shift in URL (unreal life, as opposed to IRL – in real life). A thought provoking article from the Verge on developments in this space.

But how much do you absorb, what do you learn from your time investment? An interesting article from Farnam Street on something that we all do an awful lot of.

My recent NBN journey to HFC and how to repurpose an ASUS ADSL modem.

1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, documentaries from Open Culture

A step by step guide on how to reduce Facebook’s ability to directly capture what you do online.

Welcome to this site’s new domain name “Exponentially Digital”. Why the change? I’m glad you asked…[read on to know why]

This is how it starts, how under the guise of “security” our freedom and privacy is stripped away. A thoroughly bad law has been implemented and supported by both sides of Australian politics. What’s worse than the impact on our individual privacy is what it means for the state of cryptography across the entire Internet: purposefully allowing back doors to be built into core components of the technology foundation is ripe for abuse by both state and non state actors.

The important psychological effects of regular writing habits.

Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed including access to private user messages; tools to enhance your privacy if you simply can’t stop using Facebook.

A great article from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software on how to align project governance and agile frameworks…

Agile Team Velocity: How to Estimate the Impact of Time Off Written by Andrew Newbury ...

A great article from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software on project kick off meetings and why they can (even!) be used Agile environments…

NZ customs can now demand phone or laptop passwords  Tuesday 2 October, 2018 ...