Archive for November, 2008
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Relive 08 Panel
The Panel and Chair
Originally uploaded by Lady__Jane.
I was at the Open University (Walton Hall, Milton Keynes) on Thursday and Friday for Relive 08, a conference on the educational use of virtual worlds. I took part in a panel debate on the Friday morning, and here [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Ties that bind
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
One of the throwaway remarks I sometimes make at conferences is that “Google knows you’re pregnant before you do”.
I can say this because the things you search for will change as your life changes, and search engine providers may well be able to spot the [...]
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Grimpen Mire
A while back I wrote a column about cloud computing in which I noted that the physical location our online services still matters, and commented that:
In the real world national borders, commercial rivalries and political imperatives all come into play, turning the cloud into a miasma as heavy with menace as the fog over the [...]
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Elizabeth Anscombe’s grave
Elizabeth Anscombe’s grave
Originally uploaded by BillT.
Wandering through a damp Cambridge yesterday I made my way to St Giles’ Cemetery (as was, it’s called something else now) to visit Wittgenstein’s grave, and also to call on Anscombe, buried nearby. An important philosopher in many ways, [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Wired for a cause
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website too]
By the time you read this we may well know who is to be the next President of the United States, [indeed we do, and the result has given us hope] hanging chads, voter challenges and defective e-voting machines willing, although as I write [...]
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
More from Free Thinking in Liverpool
Ian McMillan introduces the thinkers speed dating event
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Is Privacy Dead?
I’m in the bar at FACT in Liverpool having just had an excellent time debating privacy with Jeffrey Rosen, Jonathan Sawday and Sonia Livingstone, expertly chaired by Philip Dodd. It’s part of Radio 3’s Free Thinking festival and will be broadcast on Monday’s Night Waves on Radio 3.
FACT is a fabulous building, and there’s a [...]
