Archive for June, 2009
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Whose Service?
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
Much of the debate that followed last week’s publication of the Digital Britain report has focused on the proposal to take some of the income from the TV Licence and make it available to fund universal broadband access, with a suggestion that once this has [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Digital Britain: Engaging with the Internet
I got home at 1500, checked out the Digital Britain website, then fired up the Parliament channel at 1530 to see new Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw present the Digital Britain White Paper (according to BERR) or Final Report (according to DCMS). And then I tweeted while I read, before sitting down to write this, which [...]
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Pixels and Paintbrushes
[You can also find this on the BBC News website, of course]
The 53rd Venice Art Biennale has just opened, a massive exhibition of contemporary art from around the world that takes over large parts of the city every two years from June to November and turns it into a showcase for the new, the experimental, [...]
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Bing or Bust
I wrote this last week and forgot to post it here – it’s on the BBC News site and I’ll add it here when I get home:
Will Bing boom or be a big bust?
While sales of hardware may be suffering greatly it seems that the general economic gloom has not yet diminished the ambitions of [...]
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Post-Biennale Blues
The Biennale’s new office…
Originally uploaded by BillT.
I’ve just finished four days in Venice for the Vernissage of the 2009 Biennale with the BBC World Service Digital Planet team of Gareth Mitchell and Colin Grant.
We had an excellent time, and it’s always hard to leave this wonderful city.
There are some photos on Flickr, including some nice [...]
