Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Our Connected Christmas
We had a traditional Christmas this year, though since the kids are now sixteen and seventeen their sleep patterns were not disturbed by an anxious wait to see what Santa would provide in return for their good behaviour during the year.
After a lazy morning, a protracted lunch and a game of Scrabble we settled down [...]
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
Home Life
We had a visit from Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC technology correspondent, yesterday - they wanted to film my home network setup for an internal BBC presentation and talk to me and the boy about the future of television.
Rory also blogged it and even made a short video…
As a BBC veteran, I’m obviously not the best person [...]
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Making the Market Work
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
Twitter, despite the attention it receives around the place with its high-profile users like Stephen Fry, is not the only micro-blogging service out there.
I quite like Tumblr, and Stumbleupon does something useful, while BrightKite links notes and photos to your current location and is growing [...]
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
Want a Second Classroom?
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
Although it’s common to hear technology entrepreneurs and investors express concern about the possibility that Google will move into their market niche and take away their business, the reality is that neither Google nor anyone else is guaranteed success in a new area.
Google’s social network, [...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Who is responsible in our cloudy world?
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
In the next few days [in fact it is now published] a number of large technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, are going to announce that they have signed up to a voluntary code of conduct on how they do business in countries that curtail [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
A link to eternity
[You can read this on the BBC News website - sorry it's late being posted here. But one day I'll be late too..]
While Google is as secretive about its internal processes and systems as Apple is about product development, every now and then senior people post articles on the official Google blog and offer their [...]
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 21st through May 29th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between May 21st and May 29th:
The Next-Gen Web: Browser Storage Support - interesting analysis
The New York Times should let Frankie go to Hollywood and quit with the kvetching. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine - Interesting article on conflicting interests.
Community Building on the Web:Companion Site - Still the [...]
