David Coveney

A personal blog transitioning into an exploration of the intersection of design, technology and ethics

Tag: Publishing

  • The AI locusts and the inevitable outcome for publishers

    The AI locusts and the inevitable outcome for publishers

    We had a problem over at Design Week recently. The server was groaning a little bit and a huge amount of bandwidth being eaten up. On investigation, it seemed to be a bot that was stuck in a loop, reading the same content again and again and again. Always the same handful of URLs.

  • A little change on this website

    A little change on this website

    In the past, this website was sort of my place to keep family and friends in touch. I first set it up in 2005, just before going away to Peru on travels. It was a great. Facebook had been invented but wasn’t generally available or popular yet, other platforms weren’t well thought through or scattered,…

  • Twitter is about to die. Here’s why.

    Twitter is about to die. Here’s why.

    Something odd has started to happen on Twitter for me, and it’s cutting my usage of it down quite dramatically. Why? It’s because it seems the spammers are winning… https://twitter.com/nrhansonp/status/318959016602660864 https://twitter.com/fierofan11q/status/318758157247709184 https://twitter.com/DavidThiebaudc/status/318665593605738497 https://twitter.com/catazettler3/status/318327663506890752 https://twitter.com/clintonxbaurer/status/318093880182591488 Every. Single. Day. I get lots of these. Some disappear into the ether, others remain on the Interactions tab on Twitter….

  • WordCamp UK – Great Stuff + a Little Controversy

    I went to WordCamp UK 2010 in Manchester… this is my write-up of the event, and its controversies along with my presentations…