Friday, February 27th, 2009
Lift09
I’m lucky enough to be in Geneva today at the simply wonderful Lift09, where I’ve met lots of great people – old and new friends – and been stimulated, entertained and surprised. I gave a short talk at lunchtime, and the video is here. It was intended as a provocation – my own ‘Modest Proposal’, [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Ties that bind
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website] One of the throwaway remarks I sometimes make at conferences is that “Google knows you’re pregnant before you do”. I can say this because the things you search for will change as your life changes, and search engine providers may well be able to [...]
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Is Privacy Dead?
I’m in the bar at FACT in Liverpool having just had an excellent time debating privacy with Jeffrey Rosen, Jonathan Sawday and Sonia Livingstone, expertly chaired by Philip Dodd. It’s part of Radio 3′s Free Thinking festival and will be broadcast on Monday’s Night Waves on Radio 3. FACT is a fabulous building, and there’s [...]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us: Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet – the only sensible option… Reporters sans frontières – Beijing Games 2008 – Advice from RSF Test: Silicon Swings and Silicon Roundabouts – read and digest before taking any action Cory Doctorow: Filesharing deal will drive swapping underground [...]
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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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Monday, July 7th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 5th through July 7th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 5th and July 7th: Slashdot | The Internationalization of Malware – Nice attempt to take a multicultural view of malware Why Identi.ca needs to look further afield than open source. Strange Attractor – excellent analysis from Suw, as usual. Wendy?s Blog: Legal Tags » Privacy Falls into [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 1st through July 4th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 1st and July 4th: 2gether no more | DavePress – I?m absolutely convinced that for events, conferences or whatever, doing fun stuff is more important that sitting and listening to people on stages. Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom | Threat Level from [...]
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 25th through June 28th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 25th and June 28th: Bad science: Suicides, Aids, and a masts campaigner | Comment is free | The Guardian – Surely there's a link to wifi too… ICO slaps TfL over Oyster data hoard | The Register – So if you want to get your child's discount [...]
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
FYI: The new politics of personal information
I was pleased to be asked to speak at the launch of Demos’ new report on personal information on Friday. The report’s authors, Peter Bradwell and Niamh Gallagher, gave a solid introduction to the issues and then Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, comedian Natalie Haynes and I got to respond. You can download the report from [...]