Archive for June, 2006
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Talking to Bruce
Cambridge Film Festival fun
Originally uploaded by BillT.
On July 14 the Arts Picturehouse has a live Q&A with US photographer and director Bruce Weber as part of the Cambridge Film Festival. I’m doing a daily podcast for them, but also helping out with other technotrickery including [...]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Cambridge Film Festival Podcast
The Cambridge Film Festival kicks off next week and runs to July 16, with over two hundred films being shown. It’s one of the best things about living in Cambridge – I’ve been going to the festival for over twenty years now! And this year I get to be part of the team, as I’m [...]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
To tag or not to tag
[Read this on the BBC News website too]
As I write this a message has just arrived in my email Inbox. That brings the total up to 6,559, though if it wasn’t for the junk mail filter it would top seven thousand.
It’s an absurd situation, especially since a year ago I would ruthlessly prune my [...]
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Film Festival Fun
I’m sitting in the offices at the top of the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse on St Andrews Street, working on plans for the official Cambridge Film Festival podcast – see http://cff.libsyn.com/ for our site.
We launch properly on Friday, when the festival programme is announced, and then it will be pretty full on until July 17th. [...]
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
John Naughton's Inaugural
Due to the unfortunate timing – he was speaking just as I was recording Digital Planet at Bush House – I missed John Naughton’s inaugural lecture as a professor at the Open University (only four years late, as Quentin points out). Fortunately the transcript is now available, and the webcast will soon be viewable – [...]
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
One gates opens…
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website]
The news that Bill Gates is giving up his role as Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect was the second item on Radio 4’s Today programme on the morning it was announced.
While Gates will stay at Microsoft for the next two years, and even then will work part-time and [...]
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Playing with Flock
I’ve just downloaded Flock, which advertises itself as:
a free web browser that makes it easier than ever to share photos, stay up-to-date with news from your favorite sites, and search the Web. Take our tour to learn what’s different about Flock, then download the beta to get started – and please tell us what you [...]
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Suing Stephen Joyce
From Lawrence Lessig’s blog
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society’s Fair Use Project has filed a law suit against Stephen Joyce, who claims the right to control access to the papers and letters of James Joyce. The context of the suit is described well in this article appearing in the New Yorker by D. T. [...]
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Every bit you make..
[As usual, you can read this on the BBC News website]
The computers know everything. They know what you look like, where you go and who you meet. They know everything you say, can read every message you send and even know what you are looking at at any particular moment. If you raise your left [...]
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
All bits are equal..
but are some more equal than others? As ever, you can read this piece on the Technology pages of BBC News online.
The Federation Against Software Theft, FAST, was set up over twenty years ago to raise awareness of software piracy and lobby Parliament for changes in the law to help software companies protect their business.
