Month: May 2007

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on May 29th:

• Designing for Civil Society: Reinventing the RSA together – There’s an RSA vibe going… maybe it can be FaceBook for our offline time?
• Wellington Grey — Miscellanea — The Truth About Wireless Devices – What Panorama was really saying
• Thompson calls for internet to become part of the scenery « OurKingdom – OurKingdom comments and critiques my recent column
• Venezuela: Coup Co-Conspirators as Free-Speech Martyrs – Some criticism of Hugo Chavez in the press over the failure to renew TV station RCTV’s license doesn’t put it in the context of their support for the failed 2002 coup.
• stevenberlinjohnson.com: A Call For Help – Steven wants to hire people to work for outside.in… not my sort of gig, but he would certainly be fun to work with 🙂

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on May 28th:

• Your Space, My Space, Everybody’s Space – The background to the pressure on MySpace to disclose details of registered sex offenders who had signed up, and some valuable commentary on the nature of privacy today.
• Pull apart this cuckoo’s nest we’re building – Henry Porter on surveillance – eloquent as ever, even when he’s wrongheaded. But here he is completely spot on
• RSA Journal – The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce – to give it its full name – has always been the place for interesting thinking.

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on May 27th:

• Zero case for lying – Finkelstein points out that the the new ‘advice’ to pregnant women not to drink alcohol is in fact not based on any new evidence and amounts to using the medical profession to push a government policy that is not scientifically justified. Not a good idea,
• VM enables “write-once, run anywhere” Linux apps – Virtualisation, my dear. Or, as Roger Needham used to point out, there isn’t a single problem in computing that can’t be solved with another level of indirection.
• ShowYourself Widget – Want to break down any possible barriers between your social networks? You know, I’m sorely tempted..
• Film Shed – Home – the kids are getting into film-making…
• Facebook Platform Launch – The way FaceBook integrates applications is very significant for social networking. And very cool 🙂

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on May 26th:

• Think Local | News | Telegraph – It’s always worrying when you find some interesting thinking and discover that it comes from a Tory think tank and The Daily Telegraph… but we have to take good ideas where we can find them
• I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The Final Days of Google | PBS – It’s a nice theory, but somehow unconvincing, not least because it assumes that the US and specifically Silicon Valley will remain the centre of the tech world and that any Google replacement must come from there.
• A Sunday Times article what was written for me at kierenmccarthy.co.uk – An exercise in transparency from Kieren, author of sex.com and an old mate

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on May 25th:

• Kids get Groovy with Sibelius software – Sibelius has new kids version to encourage music-making
• Rocker Townshend Tunes Musical Portraiture – Lifestyle News – Digital Trends – Coming up on next week’s Digital Planet

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on May 23rd:

• FT.com / Companies / Media & internet – Google’s goal: to organise your daily life – I trust Google, I really do…
• O’Reilly Radar > Trends of Online Mapping Portals – Maps matter. Or rather, GIS matter and maps are the most obvious way they manifest themselves, for now at least
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: What thoughts should I think? – What’s not to like about Google telling you what to do or which job to take? And if they know who we should vote for then we can dispense with those pesky elections too.

Here’s what I’ve tagged on May 21st:

• Identity crises and the Diaspora of You « Green Tea Ice Cream – Interesting take on online identity
• Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning – This is the man Panorama wheeled out to provide evidence that wifi is dangerous, Olle Johannsson
• Tim Worstall: Cancer Clusters and Mobile Phone Masts – Nice dissection of the pseudo expert from BBC’s Panorama tonight
• Venice: duels over troubled waters – Fibre optic cables in Venetian canals… anyone know anything more
• Common Europe 2007 – I was speaking at this conference on Sunday
• Barbie’s greatest hits? – CNET News.com – Mattel is trying to reach out to the next iteration of girls with an MP3 player designed to look like a doll that also hooks into an online virtual world.