Author: billthomuk

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on June 4th:

• Chad … I Am Your Father … | D5 | AllThingsD – George Lucas criticises YouTube for spreading bad movies. This from the man who scripted and made Episode I…
• how stable is the network? – From opendemocracy, an interesting aside on the net.
• Lessig responds to Register hatchet job – I know and like Larry Lessig. I know and like Andrew Orlowski. But Andrew’s piece seems to cross the line from critical journalism to bad and unethical misrepresentation, and I’m saddened to see it in The Register.
• Slashdot | Guitartabs.com Suspends Under Legal Pressure – The extension of copyright and ideas of intellectual ‘property’ to by-ear transcriptions of songs is completely unreasonable, but small organisations can’t afford to fight for their rights.

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 2nd and June 3rd:

• apophenia: list of non-english social network sites – As the network’s reach broadens beyond the english-speaking old industrial nations this sort of awareness will be increasingly important.
• The future of publishing – perhaps –
• Slashdot | Photo Tagging as a Privacy Problem? – Interesting take on the issues that life lived online poses, especially when it comes to being in other people’s photos

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between May 30th and May 31st:

• “Film and the Audience of Tomorrow” – Danah is always worth listening to, and since I’m involved with the Cambridge Film Festival this is very relevant
• Slashdot | Hijacking Firefox Via Insecure Add-Ons – We learn, and then we forget. In this case foolishness and laziness create a new attack vector for Firefox users – a vector that even IE would be ashamed to admit to.
• Manitoba chiefs want cellphone revenue – Hard to beliieve that this is serious and not a troll.
• p2pnet.net – on legal action by Wayne Crookes – Jon Newton is one of the good guys, running p2pnet and publishing a lot of great stuff. It’s appalling that he is being harassed, and he deserves our support

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