Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 5th and March 8th:
- This is unutterably cool.. – %extended%
- net.wars – Wendy Grossman on Phorm – she’s not as opposed to the idea as some
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 2nd through March 3rd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 2nd and March 3rd:
- Metcalfe?s Law: more misunderstood than wrong? « HighContrast – A 02006 post spotted via O’Reilly’s blog and worth reading. I’ve always been annoyed with the simplistic chants of ‘Metcalfe’s Law’ from the net zealots. Now I know I was right 🙂
- FT.com / Your money / FT Entrepreneur – High hopes to sound the alarm bells across the world – AlertMe in the FT
Playing with the Wii
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
The Nintendo Wii is an astonishing computer, the console for people who don’t play games, nestling next to the TV like a family pet and encouraging those who would normally sneer at a PlayStation to wave their arms around in order to play virtual tennis.
The Wii remote has a lot to do with its success, of course. This motion detecting wireless handheld controller gives players a far more direct sense of engagement with the game than the buttons, pads and triggers of traditional consoles, and accounts for much of the Wii’s success as a family gaming platform.
Like other games systems the Wii is as far from an open platform as you can imagine. Games cost a lot of money to develop, and Nintendo have worked hard to make it difficult to get inside the Wii for fear that easy access would allow games to be copied and distributed.
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on March 1st:
- Free download of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods – Boing Boing – Cory doesn’t like it. Nor do I.
- Neil Gaiman – Neil Gaiman’s Journal: The nature of free – the problem isn’t that books are given away or that people read books they haven’t paid for. The problem is that the majority of people don’t read for pleasure.
- Charles Arthur: Will Olympic athletes be blindfolded? – Charles speculates about restricted net access. At WSIS in Tunisia we got unfiltered access from the conference centre, I recall
- How Phorm plans to tap your internet connection | The Register – Excellent analysis of the privacy nightmare that UK ISPs – including my own until I switch – are planning to unleash on us in their search for revenue
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on February 28th:
- BBC NEWS | Technology | A little less conversation – “I am saddened that the last 20 years of research into human computer interaction, and the last 100 years of research into human psychology and the ways we manage communication with each other, has been totally disregarded by the people discussing social
- Broadcast & Podcast Gadgets 2008: Blast from Bournemouth – Sound advice on microphones.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 24th through February 25th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between February 24th and February 25th:
- Hype Cycle 2006 – Works for me
- The Associated Press: Worker Snooping on Customer Data Common – So no need to worry about the UK ID database then. Or our health records.
- Slashdot | Plants Use Twitter to Tell You to Water Them – This is only the beginning 🙂
- The Future of Reputation – One to read…
- Shelley’s “Love’s Philosophy.” – for me
The unenlightened
Pakistan is blocking YouTube because the site, a bastion of free expression, mashups, flexible attitudes to copyright and many other fine things – including me with Gu Pots on my head – contains material that is “blasphemous” and considered offensive to Islam.
It is yet another example of the way in which the world is dividing between those cultures and countries that are able to accept the existence of values that diverge from those they espouse and those which would like to remove all, those which are open and those which are closed.
It’s becoming clear that countries are the unit of network censorship, that the tales we told back in the 90’s about the end of the nation state were foolish dreams.
It’s also becoming clear that there is a price to pay for allowing nation states to assert their borders in cyberspace, a price that may in fact be too great.
Because soon almost all the places on the Internet where I spend my time and meet my friends will be off-limits in those countries, and I can’t help thinking that is a very bad state of affairs.
My son, RPS champion
On Saturday I headed off to Bristol with Max and his mates Adam and Ryan. We were off to Watershed for a UK screening of ‘Rock Paper Scissors, Way of the Tosser’, a fantastic and funny Canadian film made by our friends Tim and April (who came over to Cambridge for last year’s film festival and charmed us all).
The film was great, the crowd was friendly and Max managed second place in the RPS competition held after the screening! It was worth the drive and the late night…
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on February 22nd:
- Lord Falconer?s plan to remove news from online archives during trials is unworkable : Journalism.co.uk editors blog – It’s a real issue under current law, but the proposal is as foolish as can be!
- NUJ?s Journalist magazine to go online-only : Journalism.co.uk editors blog – Bad idea – they are making a downloadable PDF available. That’s not online, it’s cheap distribution of print!
- Why I Will Never Use Creative Commons Images blog post » LuckyOliver – This piece by Sabrina outlines the issues with CC images rather well.
- Sabrina Dent: Pixel Pushing Ireland » Oh Moli You Heartbreaker, You – An excellent tale of PR stupidity
My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 19th through February 21st
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between February 19th and February 21st:
- Brighton Festival 2008 | Creative Brighton Debate @ Pavilion Theatre – Creative Brighton Debate With Emily Bell, Matt Locke and Beth Appleton, chaired by Bill Thompson 07 May 2008 at 7.30pm Pavilion Theatre £7.50 The digital future is upon us and it is world changing. But what and who is shaping this new environment? W
- Live from Toshiba’s HD DVD press conference in Tokyo – Engadget – It’s over for HD-DVD