Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us: Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet – the only sensible option… Reporters sans frontières – Beijing Games 2008 – Advice from RSF Test: Silicon Swings and Silicon Roundabouts – read and digest before taking any action Cory Doctorow: Filesharing deal will drive swapping underground [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th: Web curbs for Olympic journalists – What a surprise… Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown – Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely. Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… – nasty [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Watching the Olympics
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website - and it seems the story is already moving on, with reports that press access to the net will be filtered by the Chinese] I won’t be going to Beijing for the Olympic Games next month, and in fact I probably won’t even be [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Shouting ‘bug’ on a crowded Internet…
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website, and it's also on CircleID] In the last few weeks we’ve seen two very different approaches to the full disclosure of security flaws in large-scale computer systems. Problems in the domain name system have been kept quiet long enough for vendors to find and [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 17th through July 22nd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 17th and July 22nd: Matasano?s ?blunder? « Ars Militaria: Research Institute of Systematic Misanthropy – Outline of what is believed to be Dan Kaminsky's cache poisoning finding RANDOM.ORG – Coin Flipper – I really like this… especially the older coins Techdirt: A Detailed Explanation Of How The [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 13th through July 17th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 13th and July 17th: iPhone problems – how carphone warehouse took my iphone & ruined my credit rating Mac vs PC – YouTube – Mac vs. PC – Halo Style Android – Google’s Android platform: not so open after all Schneier on Security: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks – We [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Being there
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website] On Monday I went to see Clay Shirky talk at a lunchtime seminar hosted by the Demos think tank, travelling in to London earlier than I needed to on a crowded train, sitting on a slow bus across town and then squeezing into a [...]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Time for digital turnoff
Jeff Jarvis has a great post over at Buzzmachine in which he argues that its time to ‘tear down the broadcast towers’: My most striking realization since getting my iPhone (love it, thanks for asking) is that radio is doomed. Pandora is a wonder, creating my own radio station, live and on the fly without [...]
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 11th through July 12th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 11th and July 12th: Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Build the Open Shelves Classification – 2gether08 | Spirited Away – what next for 2gether – Call for ideas from Steve Moore for all at 2gether08 Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Could Too Much Transparency Lead to [...]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Charlie Leadbeater Synecdoche
NESTA Event: Charlie Leadbeater Synecdoche Originally uploaded by BillT. Charlie was speaking at the NESTA-organised seminar with Tim Berners-Lee last week. I thought this captured his essence.