Monday, November 30th, 2009

Keeping Cyberspace a Public Space

[As ever, this can be read on the BBC News website]
I recently had an opportunity to re-read a pamphlet I wrote in 2000 for a series on new thinking about mutualism published by the Co-operative Party.  In ‘e-Mutualism, or the tragedy of the dot.commons’ I talked at length about the co-operative basis of the Internet, [...]

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Friday, July 18th, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 13th through July 17th

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 13th and July 17th:

iPhone problems – how carphone warehouse took my iphone & ruined my credit rating
Mac vs PC – YouTube – Mac vs. PC – Halo Style
Android – Google’s Android platform: not so open after all
Schneier on Security: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks – We need a firefox extension [...]

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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Storm warning for cloud computing: more like a miasma

[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website, and Nick Carr has an excellent piece on 'miasma computing' that moves the argument on nicely.]
My friend Simon is one of those net entrepreneurs with the attention to detail it takes to have an idea and turn it into an effective company. He’s [...]

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