Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:
Detecting SSH tunnels « coderrr – more detail here
Slashdot | Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling – bugger. but another reason why traffic analysis should be as closely regulated as other forms of surveillance
OFT Refers Kangaroo To Competition Commission, Delaying Launch By Months | paidContent:UK – [...]
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 25th through June 28th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 25th and June 28th:
Bad science: Suicides, Aids, and a masts campaigner | Comment is free | The Guardian – Surely there's a link to wifi too…
ICO slaps TfL over Oyster data hoard | The Register – So if you want to get your child's discount [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Openness and Innovation
My latest post over at the TCS Innovations blog was drawn from the introduction to the Openness and Innovation panel at the recent Media Futures Conference
Just as open societies have, since the Reformation and the Enlightenment, been the pre-condition for the social, cultural, scientific and technological innovations that have created the modern world – with [...]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 16th through June 23rd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 16th and June 23rd:
Civil Service: Participation online guidance – Excellent advice for all of us who venture online, not just civil servants.
E-piphanies – Machinations – The Trojan Social Open-Source Drop-Down – Nice article outlining some of the dangers that come from widgets/clouds
Schneier on Security: Underhanded Implementation of [...]
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Bill Thompson chairs Openness and Innovation session
Bill Thompson chairs Openness and Innovation session
Originally uploaded by jem.
Jem’s picture of me in action at yesterday’s Media Futures Conference, which was a lot of fun.
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Changing the Way We Think
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website, and Nick Carr has picked up on it]
In her recently published book ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, Professor Susan Greenfield brings her considerable expertise as a neuroscientist to bear on the question of whether and how our current use of [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 14th through June 16th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 14th and June 16th:
5 Lessons in Promoting Events Using Social Media (Back to Basics) – Solid advice from Stephanie Booth
AVG scanner blasts internet with fake traffic | The Register – Now this is a real pain for all of us… .tragedy of the commons writ large
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Being watched
[As ever, you can read this online on the BBC News website]
The chances are that I’ll be getting a letter from my internet service provider in the next few weeks telling me that they’ve been watching my network activity closely and think I’ve been breaking the law.
Virgin Media, who used to be called ntl before [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Spotted in Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo
Originally uploaded by BillT.
On a random bookstand along Av Paulista. I can’t imagine finding Bukowksi, Baudelaire, Neal Cassidy, Anais Nin, Erasmus, Emily Dickinson – and Garfield – for sale on a stall in the UK!
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Sao Paulo: night sky from the roof
Sao Paulo: night sky from the roof
Originally uploaded by BillT.
This is what it looked like on the 15th floor yesterday evening around 8pm local time. The city just goes on and on, in all directions, stretching around me. I’d swear it was growing as I looked.
Today has been a lot of fun with Mark [...]
