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The dangers of internet copycat behaviour, Notebook

The dangers of internet copycat behaviour

Take two siblings, perhaps one is eight and one is six. The first, let’s call him Rory, slaps his mother hard across the face at the dinner table.

By | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 6 July 2012 at 2:00 am

Bus Strike, Miliband, Taken 2, Breivik and Isle of Wight: Why are they trending?, Notebook

Bus Strike, Miliband, Taken 2, Breivik and Isle of Wight: Why are they trending?

A look at the trending topics on social networking sites and search engines today, to see what we’re interested in, and why.

By | Notebook | Friday, 22 June 2012 at 11:34 am

Google's global mental health check

Google chose today to deliver their "Zeitgeist", the annual psychological health check for the collective consciousness of internet users conducted by statistical analysis of the billions of search requests made each year. The prognosis for humankind is not good.
What concessions to the ailing economy? In the UK, "jobs" is now the tenth most searched term, [...]

By | Notebook | Wednesday, 10 December 2008 at 3:27 pm

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