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July 7, 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 YouTube?s Data Tar Pit – excellent analysis from Wendy Seltzer of the YouTube data disaster in the making
Status-Q » Blog Archive » Internet independence – want one

July 4, 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 Wired.com – And this is why data retention is a bad idea. Even if we trust Google, who would trust Viacom?
Chaos Communications Congress 25 call for participation – Boing Boing – Should be fun
Slashdot | RMS and Clipperz Promoting Freedom In the Cloud – Interesting initiative – wonder if it will get any traction

December 9, 2007

Who Pays the Paper?

[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]

If you live outside the United Kingdom then the BBC website at bbc.com has a surprise for you, in the form of some prominent advertisements.

While the license-fee supported sites provided to the UK population remain free of ads, the BBC has started treating the web in the same way as it does the TV channels it broadcasts around the world by trying to generate revenue from them.

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