Sunday, September 20th, 2009
African Broadband
[As ever, this piece is on the BBC News website, where they called it 'How Broadband is Changing Africa', though I think the real message is that a broadband Africa will change the Internet...]
Norman Borlaug, whose work in Mexico and India led to the ‘green revolution’ in agricultural production, died last week and was widely [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Cloud City
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
When I’m asked to give a talk about technology I like to pull out my iPod Touch, wave it at the crowd and point out that ‘in the future’ it will be a supercomputer with parallel processors and terabytes of storage.
Well, it seems the future [...]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
End of the Internet: Pictures at Eleven?
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
We journalists like nothing more than a forthcoming apocalypse, especially when it involves something that most people don’t properly understand. It’s easy to frighten people with talk of ‘superbugs’ or argue that when the Large Hadron Collider is turned on it will create ‘strangelets’ that [...]
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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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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
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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Friday, July 11th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 10th through July 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 10th and July 11th:
Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online – Distance Degrees.com – Useful list of places to look
BBC NEWS | Politics | Voters' data 'should not be sold' – Another sensible report to be ignored by the UK government…
Personal Internet [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 5th through July 7th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 5th and July 7th:
Slashdot | The Internationalization of Malware – Nice attempt to take a multicultural view of malware
Why Identi.ca needs to look further afield than open source. Strange Attractor – excellent analysis from Suw, as usual.
Wendy?s Blog: Legal Tags » Privacy Falls into YouTube?s Data Tar [...]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 16th through June 23rd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 16th and June 23rd:
Civil Service: Participation online guidance – Excellent advice for all of us who venture online, not just civil servants.
E-piphanies – Machinations – The Trojan Social Open-Source Drop-Down – Nice article outlining some of the dangers that come from widgets/clouds
Schneier on Security: Underhanded Implementation of [...]
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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 [...]
