Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
I Needed Music ‘cos I Had None…
The latest report on young people’s online music-finding habits from consumer research company The Leading Question has attracted a fair amount of coverage for its headline finding that UK teenagers use of filesharing services has dropped by a third.
‘Speakerbox’ polls a thousand young people, so it’s a reasonable survey although of course there’s a margin [...]
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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
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 [...]
