Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Those who do not understand the past…
are condemned to write bad newspaper articles about it.
Read this, from Ian Katz in The Guardian
Despite the huge success of its website over the last decade, the Guardian was a relative latecomer to the business of online news. While competitors such as the Daily Telegraph built efficient and well-used digital facsimiles of their print editions, [...]
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Turn and Face the Strain
I left my job as head of The Guardian’s New Media Lab in 1996 to work as a freelance writer and consultant, and also to look after my two young children. After a few years of freelance life I started to describe myself as ‘unemployable’, and to tell anyone who would listen that not only [...]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Start Me Up..
[As ever, this can be read on the BBC News website, as part of their Windows 7 coverage]
In August 1995 I queued to buy the newly-released Microsoft Window 95 from the PC World store in Ropemaker Street, near Moorgate in Central London and hurried off to install it on my desktop computer.
It was hard to [...]
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
What Would Foucault Do?
[This one was on the BBC News website on October 16]
Broadband speeds may remain painfully slow, but the desire to provide access for all will be driven by the pressing need to save money by reforming public services, cutting costs and improving efficiency, whoever is in power.
So we’ll see universal access simply because the financial [...]
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Stop. Look. Change your Password
[I've been neglecting this space for the last few weeks... this was published on the BBC News site on October 9]
If you use a web-based email service then here’s a public service announcement. Tufty the Squirrel says ‘Change your password. Now. Before you read the rest of this column. And if you use your webmail [...]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Neo-Nomad at Large
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
A couple of years ago I wrote about my life as a ‘neo-nomad’, one of the growing number of people who use digital technologies to allow them to work from anywhere, living with ‘no office, colleagues who are largely engaged with online and often a [...]
