Author Archives: jeremy

The Gist of Things

By | November 22, 2011

(This is a copy of my Loose Wire Sevice column, produced for newspapers and other print publications. Hence the lack of links.) By Jeremy Wagstaff It’s interesting to see how we’ve changed in the past few years. If you had predicted that we could follow someone’s activities by accessing a single page, right down to… Read More »

Podcast: Findability

By | November 22, 2011

    The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my column on Findability (the Business Daily podcast is here.) To listen to the podcast, click on the button below. To subscribe, click here. Loose Wireless 100408   To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the following times, or click… Read More »

Disappointed, But Looking

By | December 30, 2011

(This is a copy of my Loose Wire Sevice column, produced for newspapers and other print publications.) By Jeremy Wagstaff Back in early 1987 I was lured into a store on the Tottenham Court Road by a window display of computers. And I’ve been disappointed ever since. Well, actually they were called Word Processors. Made… Read More »

The Future: Findability

By | November 22, 2011

We only noticed three months later, but we passed something of a milestone last December. I’m hoping it might, finally, wake us up to the real power of the Web: findability. According to Ericsson, a mobile network company, in December we exchanged more data over our mobile devices than we talked on them. In short,… Read More »