Monday, September 14th, 2009
No Net Gains for Party Politics
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News technology pages, and Alan Connor kindly reminded me of his excellent analysis after the 2005 election that made a similar point.] The next British General Election will almost certainly be called the first ‘real’ internet election, on the grounds that the ‘internet election’ of 2001 [...]
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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 [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th: Web curbs for Olympic journalists – What a surprise… Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown – Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely. Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… – nasty [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%: Cuba supports unrestricted Internet, but US embargo makes it impossible, CB – Cuba needs our support TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » BBC?s Sound Index is good, but we won?t get the data – Free our data campaigner Mike Butcher keeps on pushing Speech to Google Zeitgeist [...]