Tech Tips from New York Times
January 2nd, 2011 at 13:07The New York Times has published a useful list of tech tips here.
Happily I am already compliant with seven of them, but I do still need to get a cloud storage solution that works will sync with my NAS (anyone out there know a good, reasonably priced solution?)
I also found this list of likely changes in social media on RWW quite an interesting read. The most interesting points for me were on the proliferation of mobile (point 3), on the next stage of evolution for social networks (point 5) and on the rise in citizen activism (point 8). We are already starting to see the intersection of these points in the genesis of movements like UK Uncut; self-starting, localised, diverse, loosely-aligned and distributed.
As stated in the article (point 5):
People today look for more personalized, authentic, private information (where we make) a social contract around a topic or context that is beyond the reach of search engine results and Facebook crowds, said Dave Blakely, director of technology strategy at IDEO.