http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/andrew-ramadge/ Andrew Ramadge writes about technology and pop music. He works full-time as a reporter for news.com.au and contributes to titles including Mess+Noise, Overland and The Weekend Australian. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/society-has-gone-to-the-dogs-because-of-technology/ Technology is changing the way we communicate with each other – and not for the better. Gone are the days when “catching up” with friends required that you be in the same room, or even the same city. Nowadays many of our closest relationships are mediated by machines, and it’s taking a toll on what was once considered civilised society. We are forgetting how to speak to one another face-to-face. We are switched-on, but we’re getting more and more disconnected from our true selves. There is one product more than any other that has led to this worrying state of affairs. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Andrew Ramadge) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/society-has-gone-to-the-dogs-because-of-technology/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/society-has-gone-to-the-dogs-because-of-technology/#item4385 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:30:02 +0000 Andrew Ramadge | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/social-network-geeks-arent-cool-just-angry-losers/ At some point in the past decade, geeks became cool. Like the products they created, geeks began to be marketed as friendly and helpful types that everyday people could turn to to solve problems or get more out of life. Sometimes they even seemed to be attractive to women. The Social Network should go some way to ending all of this. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Andrew Ramadge) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/social-network-geeks-arent-cool-just-angry-losers/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/social-network-geeks-arent-cool-just-angry-losers/#item4244 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:30:58 +0000 Andrew Ramadge | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-google-managed-to-reveal-my-sources/ IF you’ve been following the tech media this week, you’ll know that Google is in hot water over one of the most serious privacy breaches in its history. You’ll likely have heard that Google launched a new product, called Google Buzz,  that was meant to create a social network out of its email users. And that major privacy flaws in the product led to abusive men getting access to the details of their ex wives, political activists finding their contacts made public for investigators to peruse and journalists having their sources “outed”. I’m one of those journalists. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Andrew Ramadge) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-google-managed-to-reveal-my-sources/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-google-managed-to-reveal-my-sources/#item2407 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:00:02 +0000 Andrew Ramadge | Author bios | The Punch