Category: 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

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

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between February 13th and February 17th:

• Technology and the public sector | Government offline | Economist.com – “When Britain?s Inland Revenue website crashed on January 31st?the busiest day of its year?the authorities grudgingly gave taxpayers one day?s grace before imposing penalties. They did not offer the chance to pay tax in Sweden instead?”
• AV Festival 08 : 28th February – 8th March 2008 : The Television will Not Be Revolutionised? – Come see me in Sunderland on March 6…
• The BBC?s adventures in mobile reporting « Reportr.net – Nice overview from Alf on what Rory has been up to in Barca
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Crowd control at eBay – If over the last decade you have read any of the many books and articles promoting the Net as a new world where people could form self-regulating, super-democratic communities, you have no doubt come across glowing descriptions of eBay’s feedback system

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between February 11th and February 12th:

• European archives release vintage films online – I can’t wait for this site and the chance to see the films
• Visualizing Social Media Fatigue – ReadWriteWeb – Nice attempt to plot the flows.

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between February 4th and February 9th:

• Can Social Technology help prevent Genocide? | internet.artizans – Interesting and well-argued post- and not just because it mentions one of my columns
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Are the watchers being watched? – My latest BBC column
• Another blogger thinks I’m biased – but I’m only biased in favour of good stuff!

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between February 1st and February 3rd:

• Effects of Fibre Outage through Mediterranean – SLAC Confluence – Nice analysis
• ‘Facebook fatigue’ kicks in as people tire of social networks | The Register – real numbers, it seems

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on January 31st:

• Fixing US broadband: $100 billion for fiber to every home – he US is in desperate need of 100Mbps “big broadband.” That’s the conclusion of a new report from EDUCAUSE (PDF), a group that represents IT managers at over 2,200 colleges and universities. But these 100Mbps connections are coming slowly; in the meantime
• Broadcast TV’s Demise – More Fiction Than Fact – Seeking Alpha – This is so wrong on so many levels it’s hard to know where to start..

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between January 22nd and January 28th:

• When Green Computing attacks – hype or heaven? – Register debate
• Validus taps DC power to save energy in data centers – Back to the future: DC power can save 40% of energy use in data centres, it seems
• Journalism’s frayed relationship with advertisers – The Boston Globe – “If there is a market failure to provide an adequate supply of journalism, there can’t be a public remedy for it. If one were proposed, Amy Goodman and Rush Limbaugh would have to link arms to block it. For it would mean government control of journalism.

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between January 17th and January 19th:

• Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fiction –
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Rewiring the mind – Interesting report on research strategies
• Guy Fawkes’ blog – Ten years ago Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky story..

I’m at the Oxford Media Convention and Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the BBC Trust, has just given the opening keynote. He looked at Ofcom’s imminent review of public service broadcasting and used the time to try to undermine the suggestions that the Licence Fee should not all go to the BBC – ‘top-slicing’. Here are my notes, untidied:

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