Author: billthomuk

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

• http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/OOXML-is-defective-by-design.html – And this, boys and girls, is why we cannot trust Microsoft to write our standards for us. It’s detailed, but compelling.
• Rewriting history: Should editors delete or alter online content? – Interesting survey of (US) policy on dealing with news archives
• Boing Boing: Microsoft WGA servers down; XP and Vista installs marked as counterfeit – UPDATED – Unacceptable behaviour from Microsoft – if you’re going to force people to ‘validate’ their software you can’t afford ANY errors or downtime.

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 24th:

• Traditional Journalism Job Cuts Countered by Digital Additions | PBS – Interesting analysis of changing patterns in journalistic employment..
• Intellectual property holders press for access to WHOIS data – The conflict between the desire for – and legal right to – privacy and the IP regime comes up again and again, here in relation to domain registration

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between August 20th and August 22nd:

• Official Google Blog: An update on Google Video feedback – Saying sorry – but still taking away the videos that people thought they had purchased. Giving the money back isn’t the point – the message that DRM means the consumer is no longer in control is what people now see
• The Red Shift Theory – Hardware – www.itnews.com.au – Sun’s Greg Papadopoulos discusses the shape of the IT industry and the need for utility computing

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 19th:

• Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » It’s Your Stuff? Maybe Not – I’ve been saying this for ages, and Gillmor agrees: You cannot absolutely depend on online vendors to protect your information, despite their best intentions
• Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » Another Gross Journalistic Failure – Dan Gillmor looks at the failure to question the housing market and the loan business, and rightly points to the failure of the press to point out just what was going on,

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between August 16th and August 17th:

• iMovie ‘08 – John reports on David Pogue’s ‘searing review’… with the criticism of iPhoto too, I’m just glad I restrained myself when I was in the Applestore earlier in the week. I’ll stick with what works.
• Talk:Pete Clifton – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Here we see the problem. Pete is editor of one of the most important websites in the world, and yet someone can write “I know it has gone through a proposal for deletion before but, let’s face it, who is he? Is he notable enough for an entry? I think not”

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 15th:

• Wozniak’s New Goal is Efficient Housing – Steve Wozniak on his energy-efficient housing plans.
• Google wins first battle for open wireless spectrum – Claims that Google is going to buy wireless spectrum seem completely off to me – the technicolour beast is using its market power to try to force the FCC to make spectrum more open, but it certainly doesn’t want to own or run its own spectrum.

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 14th:

• AACS DRM tentacles reach far into operating systems: Page 1 – It is time to stop Hollywood – and the content industry generally – imposing their unworkable technologies on us.
• iPlayer Politics: Behind the ISPs vs BBC row | The Register – Good analysis of the video on demand issue facing UK ISPs – highlighted by the BBC’s iPlayer, but not specific to it