Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
A cloudy look ahead..
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
If you’re ever asked to forecast the way computing will develop, offer to look three to five years ahead. It’s a good, safe time frame because if you’re right then people may just remember your prediction when you remind them how clever you are, [...]
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Giardini – after the Biennale
Giardini – after the Biennale
Originally uploaded by BillT.
In Venice over Christmas I went to the Giardini, home to many of the national pavilions for the Biennale, to see what the place looks like a month after the festival ended. More pics on my Flickr [...]
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Coffee Venexiana in Florian’s
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Originally uploaded by BillT.
Christmas in Venice is no time to abstain from one of life’s greatest pleasures… so we didn’t.
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Customer Disservice
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
I’m an indulgent father, as any of my friends will attest, and I’m also a bit of a gadget freak, so it is little surprise that my son was the lucky recipient of a cool black Xbox 360 Elite on his recent birthday.
He has been an [...]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 16th through December 18th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between December 16th and December 18th:
Potlatch: the public sphere as confessional – An excellent end of year reflection from Will. “People want things fast, flexible, groovy, NOW, but they also never want them to fail. People need to grow up”
Judge: Man can’t be forced to divulge encryption passphrase ; [...]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Evening, London
Evening, London
Originally uploaded by BillT.
A lovely view
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Give me rice, but give me a laptop too
[Also available from the BBC News website - 10 years of shiny goodness!]
Update: there’s a discussion going on over on Dvorak’s blog.
One of the best things about being on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet each week is that I get to hear about interesting technologies from many different countries and explore the impact [...]
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 1st through December 9th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between December 1st and December 9th:
Hype and Backlash for Second Life Miss the Bigger Picture – Second Life is ‘a social phenomenon that has business and marketing potential even if its not yet fully realized’ – nice piece from Mark Glazer
Transparency and responsiveness – Meanwhile, millions of users [...]
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
FYI: The new politics of personal information
I was pleased to be asked to speak at the launch of Demos’ new report on personal information on Friday. The report’s authors, Peter Bradwell and Niamh Gallagher, gave a solid introduction to the issues and then Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, comedian Natalie Haynes and I got to respond. You can download the report from [...]
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Who Pays the Paper?
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
If you live outside the United Kingdom then the BBC website at bbc.com has a surprise for you, in the form of some prominent advertisements.
While the license-fee supported sites provided to the UK population remain free of ads, the BBC has started treating the web [...]
