http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog because it alliterates, and some blogs are journalism Thu, 15 May 2008 13:21:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [As ever, this is also on the BBC News website] Jonathan Zittrain’s recent book, The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It, has spurred a lot of discussion both online and offline, with blog posts lauding his insights or criticising his over-apocalyptic imagination. The book itself makes fascinating reading ... http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/05/14/do-we-need-two-internets/ Here's what I tagged on del.icio.us between May 5th and May 10th: Slashdot | Round Robin Scheduling Not Power-Efficient - Interesting paper, and an example of how the definition of 'efficiency' changes as new factors are taken into account Computing for the Future of the Planet - Andy Hopper's research group at ... http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/05/13/my-delicious-bookmarks-for-may-5th-through-may-10th/ Here's what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 18th and May 3rd: Institute of Contemporary Arts : Talks : War in the 21st Century - Will try to be there... Still Debating With Plato - I'm a constructivist, always have been,, Cinema Treasures | Cannon Newcastle upon Tyne - for reference Charlie's Diary: Brand ... http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/05/04/my-delicious-bookmarks-for-march-18th-through-may-3rd/ The Higgs field is what gives particles their mass.  Go into orbit and try to push a 1 tonne satellite – you can’t. It weighs nothing but its mass is unchanged by being in free fall or even in deep space, and so the force needed to change its momentum ... http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/05/03/twitter-is-the-higgs-boson-of-the-internet/ [This is also on the WattWatt site, an online community for anyone concerned with energy efficiency] Like every other product of the advanced manufacturing capabilities of a long-industrialised society the computers that surround us – and, for the pacemaker wearers among us, that we have taken into our bodies – carry ... http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/05/03/computer-heal-thyself/ It's fifteen years since CERN announced that web code was in the public domain Tim Berners-Lee has talked on the BBC news site about the way things could go in future, and I managed 4 mins on BBC Radio 5 Live talking about why the Web matters... [audio:http://www.thebillblog.com/ext/bill/bill5live.mp3] http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/04/30/15-years-of-the-public-domain-web/ [As ever,  you can read this on the BBC News website] I used to be a professional computer programmer, writing in the C language on the Unix operating system back in the 1980’s when half a megabyte of memory was enough to support a sixteen-user system. These days I’m only really up ... http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/04/26/something-comes-of-nothing/ Workspace Originally uploaded by BillT. This is my desk at the moment - haven't quite migrated off the old Vaio desktop onto the new iMac, and apart from picking up the wrong mouse from time to time I'm managing the keyboard switching ... http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/04/23/workspace/ It's late on Sunday evening and I've just finished writing a column for Ariel, the BBC's inhouse newspaper. I'm tired, but thought I'd spend five minutes installing Growl, the fabulous tool that tells you about what your Mac's up to, on my new iMac. And I came across a discussion thread ... http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/04/20/context-is-everything/  [As ever you can read this on the BBC News Website. It was inspired by a debate at the ICA which I chaired, and has attracted some comment online from Tara, Jordan,  and Clare, among others] Much as I adore my MacBook I have no desire to form a life-long union ... http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/04/17/machine-love/