Archive for March, 2008

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Denial of Democracy Attacks

[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website]
In common with other administrations the UK Government is concerned about the security of the realm and its ability to cope with natural disasters, foreign aggression and terrorism.
Over the years the importance of computer systems, networks and of course the internet have become apparent even [...]

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Monday, March 24th, 2008

Just like EastEnders

Watching ‘The Passion’ on BBC iPlayer I was rather intrigued by the programmes suggested by the ‘More Like This’ feature… ‘The Worst Journey in the World’ makes some bizarre sense – but EastEnders?

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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

The Offline Cost of an Online Life

[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
The next time you want to search for something on the web, try going to ‘www.blackle.com’ instead of your usual search engine.
The page you get looks remarkably like Google, and queries you type in are fed through to Google, but there’s  one obvious difference. Instead [...]

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Sunday, March 16th, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 15th through March 16th

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 15th and March 16th:

TweetStats :: for billt – my twitter usage
My review of the new Michio Kaku book

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Saturday, March 15th, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 14th through March 15th

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 14th and March 15th:

Excellent analysis from MikeB

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Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I saw this…

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:

Another nail in Phorm’s coffin. El Reg is doing a storming job here, and deserves thanks from all of us
Useful development from IBM on how to protect data sources/sites

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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I saw this…

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:

Chris makes some good points about the lynchmod mentality of the sxsw twitterers
Interesting comment on my BBC Twitter piece

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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 10th through March 11th

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 10th and March 11th:

Nice reflections on Twitter
UK TV networks move into the social network space… and seriously

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Monday, March 10th, 2008

@bbccouk Finished my column and going to make coffee…

[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website]
Unlike many of my friends and colleagues I wasn’t able to make it to Austin, Texas for this year’s  SXSW interactive, the four day technology conference and festival that is currently firing the imagination of the technology world.
So I wasn’t in the ballroom when the [...]

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Sunday, March 9th, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 8th through March 9th

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 8th and March 9th:

Teenage dreams so hard to beat -
Online petition to stop Phorm -

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