Archive for April, 2007
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Disconnected thinking
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website. And while the tinfoil hat brigade is already assembling there are some voices of sanity]
Students at Canada’s Lakehead University have to be careful how they connect to the internet because wifi is banned on large parts of the campus.
University president Fred Gilbert, whose academic [...]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Where the webcam is
Where the webcam is
Originally uploaded by BillT.
Inspired by John Naughton’s Dublin picture.
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Watching art imitate life
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website, and you can also find some relevant stuff over at the ENTER_ site]
Next week I’m chairing a session at a major conference on digital arts in Cambridge, and if all goes well I’ll be making some of the people there feel pretty uncomfortable about their attitude [...]
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Can the network grow?
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website too.]
At the turn of the last millennium financial markets around the world realised that the valuations they were offering for companies whose business plans included the word ‘internet’ were completely ridiculous and that there was no way most of them were ever going to [...]
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
in the office…
in the office…
Originally uploaded by BillT.
I’m in Venice for the week, but projects don’t stop just because I’m away.
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Steve Jobs proves me wrong
[Also there to read on the BBC News website, as usual]
At the press event to announce that the iTunes Music Store will be selling ‘premium’ songs from EMI’s catalogue without the copy-protection offered by the Fairplay digital rights management system Steve Jobs noted that ‘some doubted Apple’s sincerity when we made our proposal earlier [...]
