Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
I Link Therefore I Am
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
I had to send a fax to a US university recently on behalf of my daughter, and I realised that not only do I not own a fax machine, I have never owned a fax machine. During the 1990’s I would occasionally approach one of these [...]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us:
Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet – the only sensible option…
Reporters sans frontières – Beijing Games 2008 – Advice from RSF
Test: Silicon Swings and Silicon Roundabouts – read and digest before taking any action
Cory Doctorow: Filesharing deal will drive swapping underground | Technology | guardian.co.uk [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th:
Web curbs for Olympic journalists – What a surprise…
Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown – Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely.
Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… – nasty little piece of [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 17th through July 22nd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 17th and July 22nd:
Matasano?s ?blunder? « Ars Militaria: Research Institute of Systematic Misanthropy – Outline of what is believed to be Dan Kaminsky's cache poisoning finding
RANDOM.ORG – Coin Flipper – I really like this… especially the older coins
Techdirt: A Detailed Explanation Of How The BSA Misleads With [...]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 9th through July 10th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 9th and July 10th:
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy – Ecellent piece and one of the few that goes back to the psychology literature.
Wordle – EU Telecoms Law –
Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA on the Future of the Web « Perfect Path – Excellent critique [...]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Hanged for a sheep
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website. There's another related piece about the proposals]
And here’s its Wordle…
Making laws in the European Union is a long, complicated and often tedious process that involves a delicate ballet featuring the Council of Ministers, the Parliament and the Commission. Before a Directive is passed there [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Being watched
[As ever, you can read this online on the BBC News website]
The chances are that I’ll be getting a letter from my internet service provider in the next few weeks telling me that they’ve been watching my network activity closely and think I’ve been breaking the law.
Virgin Media, who used to be called ntl before [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 7th through June 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 7th and June 11th:
Google: Making Nick Carr Stupid, But It's Made This Guy Smarter – John Battelle's Searchblog – John Battelle disagrees over the impact of Google…
Is Google Making Us Stupid? – Useful reflection from Nick Carr
U2 manager: Ad-supported music is beneath musicians – Paul McGuiness shows [...]
