Archive for June, 2008
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 7th through June 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 7th and June 11th: Google: Making Nick Carr Stupid, But It's Made This Guy Smarter – John Battelle's Searchblog – John Battelle disagrees over the impact of Google… Is Google Making Us Stupid? – Useful reflection from Nick Carr U2 manager: Ad-supported music is beneath musicians – [...]
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Made it to Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo Originally uploaded by BillT. So time to go exploring beyond the view from my hotel room… here til Sunday, one day conference so time to have a look around, though doing anything other than getting a sense of this megacity is of course impossible.
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 31st through June 6th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between May 31st and June 6th: The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » The Future of the Internet in Focus – Me and Jonathan Zittrain, down in the school yard BBC NEWS | UK | Web users 'fear media intrusion' – UK press complaints commission looking at how [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
The bustle of participation
I’m one of the bloggers over at the New Statesman New Media Awards blog. Latest entry considers what Sam Johnson might have made of Twitter… I’ve been up for an hour. In that time I’ve updated my Facebook status and dismissed various invitations to become a Zombie or share virtual fish or garden plants, sent [...]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Putting the people to work
In his excellent science fiction novel ‘The Diamond Age’ writer Neal Stephenson describes a world in which nanotechnology and nanobots are commonplace and ‘Matter Compilers’ can create objects at will. However there are no artificial intelligences on his imagined earth, the technology having failed to deliver on the promises made by generations of researchers. Computers [...]