Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:
Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future – ReadWriteWeb – If it delivers what it promises this will be vey good indeed
Machinima at the Cambridge Film Festival – Matt Kelland on our plans for Machinima in Cambridge this autumn
Opera companies | Music for the masses | Economist.com [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Changing the Way We Think
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website, and Nick Carr has picked up on it]
In her recently published book ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, Professor Susan Greenfield brings her considerable expertise as a neuroscientist to bear on the question of whether and how our current use 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 [...]
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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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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Unlike some of my friends and family I’m not a heavy user of online auctions, and although I have an account on eBay my reputation as a seller or buyer doesn’t really matter that much to me. At the moment I’ve got 100% positive feedback but the number of transactions is so small that it [...]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
A cloudy look ahead..
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
If you’re ever asked to forecast the way computing will develop, offer to look three to five years ahead. It’s a good, safe time frame because if you’re right then people may just remember your prediction when you remind them how clever you are, [...]
