Monthly Archives: April 2008

15 years of the public domain web

Posted on April 30, 2008 by bill

It’s fifteen years since CERN announced that web code was in the public domain Tim Berners-Lee has talked on the BBC news site about the way things could go in future, and I managed 4 mins on BBC Radio 5 … Continue reading →

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Something comes of Nothing..

Posted on April 26, 2008 by bill

[As ever,  you can read this on the BBC News website] I used to be a professional computer programmer, writing in the C language on the Unix operating system back in the 1980’s when half a megabyte of memory was … Continue reading →

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Workspace

Posted on April 23, 2008 by bill

Workspace Originally uploaded by BillT. This is my desk at the moment – haven’t quite migrated off the old Vaio desktop onto the new iMac, and apart from picking up the wrong mouse from time to time I’m managing the … Continue reading →

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Context is everything

Posted on April 20, 2008 by bill

It’s late on Sunday evening and I’ve just finished writing a column for Ariel, the BBC’s inhouse newspaper. I’m tired, but thought I’d spend five minutes installing Growl, the fabulous tool that tells you about what your Mac’s up to, … Continue reading →

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Machine Love

Posted on April 17, 2008 by bill

 [As ever you can read this on the BBC News Website. It was inspired by a debate at the ICA which I chaired, and has attracted some comment online from Tara, Jordan,  and Clare, among others] Much as I adore … Continue reading →

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Three essays by Samuel Johnson

Posted on April 17, 2008 by bill

My friend Giles at Proboscis kindly invited me to suggest the material for one of their really cool eBooks, and being that kind of hack I chose three essays by Johnson, the man to whom all journalists are beholden. The … Continue reading →

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Networking Journalism

Posted on April 9, 2008 by bill

[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website. And thanks to my City students for the inspiration!] I’ve just finished marking the essays my students at City University have to do as part of the course in … Continue reading →

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My tweetcloud

Posted on April 7, 2008 by bill

My tweetcloud Originally uploaded by BillT. Tweetcloud takes all your public tweet and makes a tag cloud out of them. It’s far too accurate… home, coffee, cambridge, sitting, watching, train, time…

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Who Will Write Tomorrow’s Code?

Posted on April 5, 2008 by bill

[As ever, this is available on the BBC News website] On Monday 31st March I was at Queens’ College, Cambridge, for the dinner to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the formation of the Mathematical Laboratory, which later became the Computer … Continue reading →

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Lunch at Les Deux Magots

Posted on April 2, 2008 by bill

Lunch at Les Deux Magots Originally uploaded by BillT. I went to Paris yesterday to see the Patti Smith exhibition, Land 250, at the Fondation Cartier. It was fabulous, a thrilling insight into the mind and work of someone I … Continue reading →

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