Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
What Would Foucault Do?
[This one was on the BBC News website on October 16] Broadband speeds may remain painfully slow, but the desire to provide access for all will be driven by the pressing need to save money by reforming public services, cutting costs and improving efficiency, whoever is in power. So we’ll see universal access simply because [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Digital Britain: Engaging with the Internet
I got home at 1500, checked out the Digital Britain website, then fired up the Parliament channel at 1530 to see new Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw present the Digital Britain White Paper (according to BERR) or Final Report (according to DCMS). And then I tweeted while I read, before sitting down to write this, which [...]
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 11th through July 12th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 11th and July 12th: Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Build the Open Shelves Classification – 2gether08 | Spirited Away – what next for 2gether – Call for ideas from Steve Moore for all at 2gether08 Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Could Too Much Transparency Lead to [...]
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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 [...]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
We Can Show Them A Better Way
When Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson launched his ‘Power of Information Task Force’ in March he was applauded by campaigners for open source software and free access to public sector information and easier availability, but there was a general concern that it wasn’t clear what the Task Force could actually do. Since then there have [...]
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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: [...]