Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Find me over on Posterous
I’m currently working four days a week within the BBC Archive development team on the top floor of TV Centre, and as a result finding time to blog, write columns and keep up to date on my RSS feeds is proving increasingly tricky.
I’ve started using Posterous to repost material as it’s easier to send them [...]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Games san frontieres
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
Back in February early adopters of the Spotify music-streaming service found that they could no longer listen to every song in the catalogue. The popular startup had been forced to limit access some songs and artists by country because the licensing deals struck with the record [...]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
#amazonfail FTW!
[Update: You can read this on the BBC News website, as usual. And the talented Craig Seymour - who was amused to have his many achievements summed up as 'former gay stripper' - has an interesting and pretty straightforward suggestion for how Amazon could resolve the issue of 'adult' content on his blog.
Further news: Nick [...]
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
New fun and new names
If you’ve nothing else to do over the Easter break – well, it’s a break here in the UK – then can I suggest checking out some things I’m currently involved with:
The Songs of Imagination and Digitisation project, at http://www.songsofimaginationanddigitisation.net/, where I’m helping manage work to build an illuminated book for the digital age, to [...]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Digital politics is different
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website, and the Modern Liberty site has lots of links and content to delight and entertain...]
In November 1988 Stuart Weir, at the time editor of the New Statesman, published a special edition of the magazine asking those concerned with the health of British democracy to stand [...]
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Beware complacency, not cancer
[As ever, this on the BBC News website. And as of this morning Facebook seems to have decided to open up some of its processes to user engagement, so the dangers I talk of may be avoided]
The fuss over Facebook’s attempt to modify the contract with its millions of users has died down for the [...]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Get Carter…
[As always, this can be read on the BBC News website. And thanks to Tony Hirst there's a commentable version of the Digital Britain report, which we will draw to Carter's attention..
Added 8/2/09: there's a useful commentary on the Power of Information beta from the 'other Tom Watson' on TechPresident.
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It may well be that Stephen [...]
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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 [...]
