Category: I saw this

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between August 1st and August 2nd:

• Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon – Columns by PC Magazine – cheap comment from John Dvorak – who knows that if things go wrong he will get credit for seeing it coming, and if it doesn’t nobody will remember this shoddy column,
• Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » We need an Open Service Definition – Deep and useful thinking from Francis

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

• Copy killers | Technology | Guardian Unlimited – Cory disses DRM again, but it’s always entertaining.
• Dragons Fandango: World’s Sexiest Writer 2007 – How to market books in the online world. Perhaps….
• Shannon’s Thirst – An interesting meditation on the future of libraries (second part) that points out the danger of entrusting public service to private corporations

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 27th and July 29th:

• Contracts can’t be changed online without notice, court rules – This is very interesting, and important – we need to ensure that it applies in UK contracts too
• The 5-4-3 double play, or “The Art of Conference Blogging” – Ethan Zuckerman on liveblogging… good sound advice
• BBC iPlayer: first thoughts at TCS Innovations – TCS Innovations – My TCS blog on the iPlayer, which I installed today
• MySpace Banning Sex Offenders: Online Predator Paranoia at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) – Good background to what is going on in the US, where real efforts to protect children are undermined by PR-driven approaches to ‘banning sex offenders’

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

• Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » DRM for Chargers: Possibly Good for Users – Ed Felten is on the nose, as usual, in calling for user-friendly deployment of new technologies
• New Statesman – A licence to leave you out – Becky writes an excellent critique of the BBC’s new iPlayer

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

• BBC Trust backs calls for Linux iPlayer | The Register – but no urgency….
• BBC NEWS | Health | Phone mast allergy ‘in the mind’ – the symptoms may be real, but they aren’t correlated with the signal. What now for those opposing wifi?
• Apple shares fall on iPhone news | New media | MediaGuardian.co.uk – Only 146,000 iPhones activated on opening weekend

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 24th:

• Scratch makes programming like playing with LEGO bricks – Looks very neat indeed…
• Slashdot | The Real Problem With Alexa – I stopped thinking about Alexa years ago- worrying to see that it is still there, still messing things up.
• Totally stitched up by Jodie Marsh | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk – But is any of this journalism?

I’ve been involved with opendemocracy.net since shortly after it was founded, and spent a lot of time at their offices in Gt Sutton Street. They had to move after the rent was increased, so I went along to say goodbye. With a camera, natch.

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on July 20th:

• New NFL Vest Rule (With Sponsor Logos) Has Some Seeing Red – Greed seems to dominate almost everything that goes along with professional sport, it makes me glad I have no interest in any of it.
• Hotmail Fails To Deliver Up To 81% Of All Attachment Emails – This is interesting, partly because of what is said but also because of the credibility issue: How do I check the data? Should I believe that is being said by an independent blogger? Who audited or verified the testing or the data?
• Jenny Holzer Twittering? – Perhaps, perhaps not… but entertaining

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 18th and July 19th:

• Mentioning someone by name on a web site at Jonathan Zittrain – and just what are we supposed to make of this?
• Remarks of Bill Gates — The Harvard University Gazette – Interesting and insightful speech from Gates, though still conveying the sense that we have to solve Africa’s problems for them..

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

• Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » Perspectives on China – John Naughton is thinking about China… as should we all
• Home – The Open Guide to Cambridge – Useful resource..
• Category Cinemas – The Open Guide to Cambridge –
• the billblog –