Archive for March, 2009
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-30
@euan don’t you think that good people see opportunities in hard times? Or that good people are aware that their current place is doomed? in reply to euan #
Thinking about accretion discs in the cloud. #
@euan good point. Wonder if it’s better for the broader economy, and how you’d measure it. in reply to euan [...]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Remembering my old teacher on Ada Lovelace Day
This blog post has been written to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, “an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology”. You can find more blog posts at the Ada Lovelace Day Collection.
Martin Belam has a much more thorough and better-written explanation of why Karen was important on his blog.
Karen Spärck Jones
The [...]
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
So say we all!
[This should be up on the BBC News website soon]
There is a famous and hilarious episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, the BBC sitcom from the 1970’s, in which our eponymous Geordies, Bob and Terry, spend an anxious day trying to avoid hearing the result of a crucial football match because they will [...]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22
Heading out for a relatively quiet & pressure free day – #diigitalplanet done without me this week as they are at #sxsw while I have a life! #
@sleepydog happy birthday to you, too! [See how Twitter has replaced Facebook as the space for this?] #
@Suw always put ‘read to do list’ at top of to [...]
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Worming our way out of trouble
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website for your delectation and delight]
The Conficker worm will be active again on April 1st, according to an analysis of its most recent variant, Conficker.C, by the net security firm CA.
This malicious piece of software, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, spreads among computers running most [...]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
What I’ve tweeted on 2009-03-17
Heading out for a relatively quiet & pressure free day – #diigitalplanet done without me this week as they are at #sxsw while I have a life! #
@sleepydog happy birthday to you, too! [See how Twitter has replaced Facebook as the space for this?] #
@Suw always put ‘read to do list’ at top of to [...]
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Take Two Steps Back: A Society Gets the Journalism it Deserves
[This is a response in part to Clay Shirky's recent essay, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. Update: Jemimah Knigh has a lovely meditation on the past and future of papers on her blog.]
When printing with movable type was introduced to Europe by Gutenberg and refined by Caxton it began a revolution that encompassed the Reformation, [...]
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
What I’ve tweeted on 2009-03-16
Sun shine outside, coffee and radio inside, and a promising day ahead. #
“If you want to follow us on Twitter… you can’t” Paddy O’Connell on Broadcasting House, R4… #
@johnpopham @robertbrook Ok – how sad are we all? in reply to johnpopham #
Off to town to buy birthday presents for the girl [...]
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
What I’ve tweeted on 2009-03-15
@O2UKOfficial my email is bill@andfinally.com in reply to O2UKOfficial #
Planning a quiet day. #
@radioproducer have a great time at Maker Faire… sorry I can’t be there too. in reply to radioproducer #
RT @_ade: Permanently referring all people with delusions of self importance to Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot photograph. http://is.gd/njkj #
@CassieRobinson that’s [...]
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Tomorrow’s Culture, Today
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website, and follow the debate on the Pixel Palace site]
I had one of the strangest experiences of my online life last Friday evening in the bar of the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, and while I’m still not sure what it means I enjoyed it, in [...]
