Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Getting This Way Up…
One of the best things about working for the World Service is that you get to meet interesting and cool people from all over the world – as you might expect.
One of the nicest is Simon Morton, who was over from New Zealand and worked as a producer on Digital Planet – he was up [...]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 27th through August 28th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between August 27th and August 28th:
Royal Television Society lecture: Lilley to discuss the ‘me’ in media – Looking forward to hearing what Anthony Lilley has to say on September 13th..
WGA failure highlights major flaw in Microsoft’s anti-piracy strategy – well-argued demolition of the centralised server strategy for windows validation
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Unlocking the iPhone: a fool’s errand
The many and various efforts made to unlock the iPhone, documented around the Web – here at the BBC, over there at Ed Felten’s blog, seem to miss a crucial point. Whether or not George Hotz, iphonesimfree and UniquePhones manage to achieve their goal, or even to commercialise the service in the face of nastygrams [...]
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 26th:
http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/OOXML-is-defective-by-design.html – And this, boys and girls, is why we cannot trust Microsoft to write our standards for us. It’s detailed, but compelling.
Rewriting history: Should editors delete or alter online content? – Interesting survey of (US) policy on dealing with news archives
Boing Boing: Microsoft WGA servers down; [...]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Watching me, watching you…
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website for your delectation and delight]
In the late 1970’s the United States was still recovering from Watergate, the scandal that forced President Richard Nixon to resign after revelations of a dirty-tricks campaign against his political rivals which involved illegal surveillance.
Partly in response to the crisis Congress [...]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 24th:
Traditional Journalism Job Cuts Countered by Digital Additions | PBS – Interesting analysis of changing patterns in journalistic employment..
Intellectual property holders press for access to WHOIS data – The conflict between the desire for – and legal right to – privacy and the IP regime comes [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 20th through August 22nd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between August 20th and August 22nd:
Official Google Blog: An update on Google Video feedback – Saying sorry – but still taking away the videos that people thought they had purchased. Giving the money back isn’t the point – the message that DRM means the consumer is no longer in [...]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Show and tell
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
When the United Nations website was defaced by a group of activists who replaced a statement from the Secretary General with the slogan “Hey Ysrail and Usa dont kill children and other people Peace for ever No war” it was hard for the organisation to keep [...]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 19th:
Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » Itâs Your Stuff? Maybe Not – I’ve been saying this for ages, and Gillmor agrees: You cannot absolutely depend on online vendors to protect your information, despite their best intentions
Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » [...]
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 16th through August 17th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between August 16th and August 17th:
iMovie â08 – John reports on David Pogue’s ’searing review’… with the criticism of iPhoto too, I’m just glad I restrained myself when I was in the Applestore earlier in the week. I’ll stick with what works.
Talk:Pete Clifton – Wikipedia, the free [...]
