Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 11th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 10th through July 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 10th and July 11th: Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online – Distance Degrees.com – Useful list of places to look BBC NEWS | Politics | Voters' data 'should not be sold' – Another sensible report to be ignored by the UK [...]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 9th through July 10th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 9th and July 10th: Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy – Ecellent piece and one of the few that goes back to the psychology literature. Wordle – EU Telecoms Law – Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA on the Future of the Web « Perfect Path – [...]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Hanged for a sheep
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website. There's another related piece about the proposals] And here’s its Wordle… Making laws in the European Union is a long, complicated and often tedious process that involves a delicate ballet featuring the Council of Ministers, the Parliament and the Commission. Before a Directive is [...]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%: Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future – ReadWriteWeb – If it delivers what it promises this will be vey good indeed Machinima at the Cambridge Film Festival – Matt Kelland on our plans for Machinima in Cambridge this autumn Opera companies | Music for the [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 5th through July 7th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 5th and July 7th: Slashdot | The Internationalization of Malware – Nice attempt to take a multicultural view of malware Why Identi.ca needs to look further afield than open source. Strange Attractor – excellent analysis from Suw, as usual. Wendy?s Blog: Legal Tags » Privacy Falls into [...]
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
opentech: ben,danny, bill
opentech:ben,danny, bill Originally uploaded by BillT. Great to see Dan O’Brien and Ben Moor at OpenTech today… more pics on flickr in my opentech set
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 4th through July 5th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 4th and July 5th: Folke Koebberling and Martin Kaltwasser- Amphis at Wysing Arts Centre – Worth a visit Slashdot | Working Towards an Eco-Friendly Fireworks Display – Heavy metals, toxic chemicals, pretty colours in the sky… Virgin, BPI at odds as first infringement letters go out – [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 1st through July 4th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 1st and July 4th: 2gether no more | DavePress – I?m absolutely convinced that for events, conferences or whatever, doing fun stuff is more important that sitting and listening to people on stages. Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom | Threat Level from [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Closing the Gates after Bill
[This is my BBC column from Monday - I forgot to post it here in all the week's excitement (2gether08, New Media Awards, Shift Happens). You can read it on the BBC News website too.] The publicity surrounding Bill Gates’ departure from Microsoft should not obscure the fact that he is still deeply involved in [...]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
We Can Show Them A Better Way
When Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson launched his ‘Power of Information Task Force’ in March he was applauded by campaigners for open source software and free access to public sector information and easier availability, but there was a general concern that it wasn’t clear what the Task Force could actually do. Since then there have [...]