Last night I went to Chinwag’s talk on ‘The dark side of social media’. There was the predictable discussion about paedophiles and how, although there aren’t likely to be more dodgy people online than offline, the ability to hide your real identity makes it easier to do bad stuff. However, the ability to track people…

Last week I went to the last ever Detournement. My review is on the BBC Southern Counties website here: Detournement – BBC Southern Counties – Beth Granter

I copied Josh’s idea but used a facebook application because I don’t have many friends on twittr. Go to flickr and tag yourself in this photo if you use flickr. To get one of these yourself, use the ‘A Thousand Words‘ facebook application.

Today my article on fashions at the Great Escape festival is Feature of the Day on the BBC Southern Counties homepage. Nice. The article itself can be found here: Beth Granter’s Great Escape festival fashion feature on the BBC southern counties website

claudiablood My latest illustration in my Zombie Girl series. Might play around with the blood, put it on her skin or something… The blood I took from my zombie film box set, ‘box of blood’.  It has a screen with fake blood in it, so I tipped it about and took photos of that, then…

Read my review of Brighton club night It Came From The Sea on the BBC Southern Counties website.

Who else has drawn a map of everyone they know and all the connections between them? Friendster used to do a ‘shortest connection chart’ between two people, showing how many ‘steps’ you were away from someone. That’s something MySpace always lacked. Now there’s an interactive 3D visualisation of everyone you know on Facebook. This is…

When someone imports their email address book into Facebook to search for friends, they can invite those friends who aren’t already on Facebook to join. However, if one of your friends has multiple email addresses, and already has a Facebook account registered to a different email address than the one you’re ‘inviting’ them with, they…

When someone imports their email address book into Facebook to search for friends, they can invite those friends who aren’t already on Facebook to join. However, if one of your friends has multiple email addresses, and already has a Facebook account registered to a different email address than the one you’re ‘inviting’ them with, they…

So I started up my Cafepress store today. Apart from my illustration which I’d uploaded a while back, I put up the t-shirt slogan: FAG ENABLER. I don’t have a television but I’d heard people had seen a Louis Theroux (sp?) program last week about a family of Americans who think that anyone who is…