Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Cultural past of the digital age
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News Website, and I get a good critical kicking from The Black Project for being old, nostalgic and feeble…]
Last weekend I had the enormous privilege of seeing the 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s film of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge.
Watching ‘2001’ […]
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on June 28th:
Paul Linford: Labour comes home at last - I’d like to believe it…
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Why CEOs and Companies Break the Law - Excellent article from the reliable Ed Felten on why Bernie Ebbers and other corrupt CEOs need severe punishment. I worked […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
A good read…
A couple of weeks ago I recorded an edition of ‘A Good Read’, a programme on BBC Radio 4 in which host Sue MacGregor and two guests discuss three books, one chose by each of them. It was a lot of fun, and worked well despite the fact that I’d chosen the hardcore cyberpunk of […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on June 24th:
Slashdot | Stanford Gets First Sun Blackbox - I remember meeting John Gage of Sun in Madrid back in 2005 and he talked then about the idea of putting a data centre into a shipping container… now it’s happening
blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks […]
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 18th through June 20th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 18th and June 20th:
‘Mr Nice Guy’ on no-fly list - Looks like it won’t be worth trying to get to the States again. Ah well…
Technology Review: Mapping the Internet - Fascinating and innovative approach to mapping the network
Anecdote: Why people don’t use collaboration tools - I’m trying […]
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
From here to Cyberspace
[Also there to read on the BBC News website]
About a year ago I asked my daughter, fifteen at the time, if she would ‘ADD’ me as a friend on MySpace so that I could comment on her profile and be part of her online social network.
She refused point blank, not because she wanted to keep […]
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Watching the China Watchers
Excellent, if disturbing, view of China and the lack of any real possibility of democratic reform by Rick Perlstein in The Nation, focusing particularly on the reality of US foreign policy and its inability to confront the reality of Chinese ambition:
..their strange rationales followed a logic that helps explain our determinately myopic China watchers today. […]
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Great Court, British Museum
Great Court, British Museum
Originally uploaded by BillT.
Having coffee with Chloe on Thursday, we looked up to see this…
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
Venice: the Biennale
I’m just back from Venice, where we’ve been reporting on the interplay between technology and art at the Biennale, the contemporary art festival that colonises the city every two years. There’s a lot to be said, and the programme (available on iTunes - search for Digital Planet - or look on the BBC site) tries […]
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 5th through June 17th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 5th and June 17th:
im right your wrong: TECHNO DISCO VIDEO - How the network unleashes creativity in the young. Or something like that
Photosynth Technology Preview - Astonishing way of navigating photosets - it makes me think of Gibsonian cyberspace more than anything else I’ve seen
CellCarriers […]
