Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Malware and my blog
It seems that sometime last week my blog was hacked and a discreet little <iframe> linking to a malware hosting site was added to the 30boxes widget you can see on the right. It wasn’t 30boxes fault - the widget code hadn’t changed, so I assume that something managed to inject the relevant line of […]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 10th through October 19th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between October 10th and October 19th:
Apple to open Cambridge store - I am lost. Somebody cut up my credit cards now.
The House of Commons: The Many Non-American Faces of the Public Domain - Well-considered review of the Public Domain book I contributed to
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
The banality of censorship
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
The military regime in Burma has controlled access to the internet for many years, but when information about the recent protests appeared all over the web, from YouTube videos to personal testimony on blogs, the generals showed that there were other options available to them and […]
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 6th through October 7th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between October 6th and October 7th:
Designing for Civil Society: The long journey from conversation to ideas to action - Some interesting thoughts - as usual - from David Wilcox
Innovation | Don’t invent, evolve | Economist.com - interesting piece, and the idea of ‘evolving’ around patents is v cool
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Amazon and the record industry
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
The restrictions placed on downloaded music files using one of the various digital rights managements (DRM) systems have always annoyed me, to the point where I’ll generally buy a CD and rip it as a high-quality AAC file rather than pay out for a song […]
6 Comments » - Posted in billblog by bill
Friday, October 5th, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 3rd through October 4th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between October 3rd and October 4th:
Braindead obituarists hoaxed by Wikipedia (The Register) - Depressing tale of sloppy journalism.
Science and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement - Physics Today August 2007 - Interesting analysis
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 29th through September 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between September 29th and September 30th:
Time for show and tell at Microsoft? at TCS Innovations - Considering the implications of the WIndows Update Update saga over at TCS Innovations blog
Fuel cells for mobiles now a little closer.. - My latest posting on the wattwatt site
O’Reilly Tools of Change for […]
