Joe's Jottings

Tagged: george-orwell

Online Exhibitionists affect privacy for us all...

· george-orwell, privacy, blogs-and-blogging, personal-stuff, politics, privacy-issues, psychology, technology, the-media

I came up with the title for this piece after reading this article on the BBC Website about people who the authors of a paper called 'online exhibitionists.  The idea is that much privacy legislation …

What goes in to a blog?

· censorship, george-orwell, blogs-and-blogging, personal-stuff, philosophy, the-media

I recently came across a couple of articles about blogging. Well, I'll be honest - they were in my Twitter feed and I took a look at them to see what other people's views were on the subject of conten…

Gazing in to the abyss

· abyss, darkness-of-the-soul, george-orwell, nietzche, christianity, personal-development, personal-stuff, philosophy, psychology

Yesterday's exploration of  'What would George say?' led me to following up a few points of research and whilst browsing around I came across this quote of Orwell's: Here is a saying of Nietzche which…

What would George say?

· george-orwell, orwell-like, orwellian, political-thought, literature, personal-stuff, philosophy, politics, science-fiction

One of the useful spin-offs from the recent (and ongoing purge and tidy) at Pritchard Towers is that every now and again something floats up that makes you think "Whoa, yes, relevant with a capital 'R…