Category: I saw this

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between October 6th and October 7th:

• Designing for Civil Society: The long journey from conversation to ideas to action – Some interesting thoughts – as usual – from David Wilcox
• Innovation | Don’t invent, evolve | Economist.com – interesting piece, and the idea of ‘evolving’ around patents is v cool

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between October 3rd and October 4th:

• Braindead obituarists hoaxed by Wikipedia (The Register) – Depressing tale of sloppy journalism.
• Science and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement – Physics Today August 2007 – Interesting analysis

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between September 29th and September 30th:

• Time for show and tell at Microsoft? at TCS Innovations – Considering the implications of the WIndows Update Update saga over at TCS Innovations blog
• Fuel cells for mobiles now a little closer.. – My latest posting on the wattwatt site
• O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2008: O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2008 Call for Participation â?? O’Reilly Conferences – Might be worth thinking about

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on September 27th:

• Bloggerheads: The Alisher Usmanov Affair – Read Tim Ireland about Usmanov
• Staged Hack Causes Generator to Self-Destruct – Nothing can possibly go wrong… go wrong… go wrong

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between September 24th and September 26th:

• Low-cost tech that meets basic needs on CNET News.com – Lovely – some cool toys that should put our western obsession with the latest phone into perspective.
• Abusing goodwill – Great piece from Suw on the complexity that faces those of us who share online.

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between September 9th and September 16th:

• Bad Science: Anything to declare? – conflict of interest/competing interests
• Competing Interestst at the BMJ – This is the level of disclosure we need for all journalists or aspiring journalists
• People search engine Rapleaf revises privacy policy (CNET News.com) – These people know my Facebook and MySpace addresses from my email address… but that information is not generally available… so they seem to be breaching the site privacy policies.

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between September 1st and September 7th:

• Fair use is not a consumer right – We should respect our opponents, not demonise them. This article from Patrick Ross of the Copyright Alliance makes a good and appropriate point, one that we have to deal with and not just dismiss.
• NSA@home – cracking NSA homebrew – we like this a lot

I get a lot of invitations to join new sites and services from friends and acquaintances, and often I’ll check them out as it’s useful to see what’s bubbling under. So this morning I wasn’t surprised to see a note asking me to join ‘Quechup’, a new social network site.

However I was disturbed to notice that the invitation had actually been sent to a mailing list I subscribe to (hi, Gord0) rather than to me individually. That set some bells ringing, so when I noticed a mention on Boing Boing I read it carefully –

If you receive an invitation from a social networking site called Quechup, run screaming. Shava Nerad is among many who pointed us to their horrible spamming practices, and says, “The blogs are calling it ‘the Q problem’ and a ‘trust virus.’ Bad juju, in general, not to mention they are one of those sites that sends you your selected username and password in the clear.” By the time you read this, there will probably be some news articles out about how evil they are. Until then, watch out.

Continue reading “Just say ‘no’ to Quechup”

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between August 27th and August 28th:

• Royal Television Society lecture: Lilley to discuss the ‘me’ in media – Looking forward to hearing what Anthony Lilley has to say on September 13th..
• WGA failure highlights major flaw in Microsoft’s anti-piracy strategy – well-argued demolition of the centralised server strategy for windows validation

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.