Archive for November, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Keeping Cyberspace a Public Space
[As ever, this can be read on the BBC News website] I recently had an opportunity to re-read a pamphlet I wrote in 2000 for a series on new thinking about mutualism published by the Co-operative Party. In ‘e-Mutualism, or the tragedy of the dot.commons’ I talked at length about the co-operative basis of the [...]
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
More than Digital
[As ever, this can be read on the BBC News Website] I once got told off by the manager of the BBC’s Heritage Collections for publishing a photograph of Alistair Cooke’s typewriter in its display case on the second floor lobby of Bush House, home of the World Service. It seemed that photography on BBC [...]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Social Media Challenges Social Rules
[This can be read on the BBC News website too...] Last week I sat around a large table on the top floor of Bush House in London with about twenty other people while we talked about the ways radio is changing and tried to imagine how English-language programming on BBC World Service could take advantage [...]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
An Internet That Speaks Your Language
[This was posted on the BBC site at the end of October] It is forty years to the week since the first data packets were sent over the ARPANET, the research network commissioned by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to see whether computer-to-computer communications could be made faster, more reliable [...]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Been a long time..
It’s been a hectic few weeks so little bloggage – and I’m in Melbourne for a week so in an unusual timezone. I’ll post some stuff now, though..