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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Posting from my ipod touch
Just installed the wordpress app…
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Fools rush in…
The House of Commons Culture Media and Sport Select Committee recently issued a call for more regulation of online content, and I wrote about it for Index on Censorship
It would be nice to think that the latest call to ‘do something’ about online content from the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee was grounded in [...]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Fun in Spain
Benalmadena
Originally uploaded by BillT.
On the last day in Benalmadena Max and I took the cable car up the mountain- where they have a falconry centre. A great display, including a Golden Eagle. And a friendly Harrier Hawk…
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Olympic Gold
I don’t really care about the Olympics, but thought I’d have a look to see how well the broadcasters were doing with their online coverage. Having spotted this interesting comment on news.com I followed the link, installed the latest Silverlight, restarted my browser and…
So good to see the IOC understands the global importance of sport… [...]
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Core Problem for Apple
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website. And it was picked up on the MSDN Developer blog]
The computer manufacturer formerly known as ‘Apple Computer’ changed its name to Apple Inc. eighteen months ago, reflecting the growing importance to its profitability of consumer gadgets like iPods, shiny toys like iPhones and of [...]
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Excellent image of Capena
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Originally uploaded by Edgar Benedetto Laudito.
Just back from two weeks in the remarkably lovely town of Capena, north of Rome, and found this great faux image of the fountain at the end of Via Capena.
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Watching the Olympics
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website - and it seems the story is already moving on, with reports that press access to the net will be filtered by the Chinese]
I won’t be going to Beijing for the Olympic Games next month, and in fact I probably won’t even be going [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Shouting ‘bug’ on a crowded Internet…
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website, and it's also on CircleID]
In the last few weeks we’ve seen two very different approaches to the full disclosure of security flaws in large-scale computer systems.
Problems in the domain name system have been kept quiet long enough for vendors to find and fix their [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Being there
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website]
On Monday I went to see Clay Shirky talk at a lunchtime seminar hosted by the Demos think tank, travelling in to London earlier than I needed to on a crowded train, sitting on a slow bus across town and then squeezing into a [...]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Time for digital turnoff
Jeff Jarvis has a great post over at Buzzmachine in which he argues that its time to ‘tear down the broadcast towers’:
My most striking realization since getting my iPhone (love it, thanks for asking) is that radio is doomed. Pandora is a wonder, creating my own radio station, live and on the fly without need [...]
