Archive for December, 2011
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Happy New Year- with added grappa
See the full gallery on Posterous All best to those on either side of the midnight line. I’ve stopped off for espresso and grappa on my way home from town as the college bells strike out the last hours of Cambridge’s 2011- excited at all that 2012 offers. Posted via email from The Sound of [...]
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
So @3UK think it’s ok to spam 3Connect software with ads… well, I don’t
I use 3 for my mobile connectivity. It’s not a great service, but it will do and I can usually get some signal, even if the link is slow and unreliable. It does. I pay for it. Fine. Yet now they’ve ‘upgraded’ the 3Connect connecton software so that it displays ads when I connect. Every [...]
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
Preparing for the Coming War on General Computation
Building a Hidden City – a first skirmish in the War on General Computation My friend Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) gave a barnstorming talk to this year’s Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, #28c3, “The Coming War on General Computation”. It’s available to watch online at and there’s a transcript for those who prefer to read [...]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Future Media at the BBC
The BBC in-house newspaper, Ariel, is no longer published on paper – the last print edition was last week. I’ve written for it for many years, but until recently my columns were behind the firewall. I plan to post some old ones here, but thought I’d start with the final column I wrote for ‘Leading [...]
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Writing again
Since I joined the Archive Development team at the BBC two years ago, initially part-time but now pretty full-on, I’ve done less and less writing here. I dropped my regular BBC column and though I’m still writing for Focus magazine and doing Click/Digital Planet on the World Service most of what’s ended up here has [...]