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My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 10th through March 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 10th and March 11th:
@bbccouk Finished my column and going to make coffee…
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website]
Unlike many of my friends and colleagues I wasn’t able to make it to Austin, Texas for this year’s SXSW interactive, the four day technology conference and festival that is currently firing the imagination of the technology world.
So I wasn’t in the ballroom when the keynote address by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went awry under the less-than-forensic questioning of technology journalist Sarah Lacy.
I didn’t see the crowd start to get restless and heckle Zuckerberg about the deeply-unpopular Beacon advertising system, or get a chance to grab the microphone and ask questions when Lacy threw the conversation open to the floor.
And yet I was there in another way, listening to and even interacting with some of my friends in the audience, picking up on the vibe in the room and even tuning in later as Sarah Lacy loudly defended herself.
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 8th through March 9th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 8th and March 9th:
Teaching in the Networked World
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
When Conservative Prime Minister Harold MacMillan was asked what was most likely to cause problems for governments he famously replied ‘events, dear boy, events’.
Coping with the completely unexpected, the sort of thing that simply cannot be anticipated, is a skill in itself and one that all politicians have to develop if they are to survive long in power.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 5th through March 8th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 5th and March 8th:
- This is unutterably cool.. – %extended%
- net.wars – Wendy Grossman on Phorm – she’s not as opposed to the idea as some
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 2nd through March 3rd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 2nd and March 3rd:
- Metcalfe?s Law: more misunderstood than wrong? « HighContrast – A 02006 post spotted via O’Reilly’s blog and worth reading. I’ve always been annoyed with the simplistic chants of ‘Metcalfe’s Law’ from the net zealots. Now I know I was right 🙂
- FT.com / Your money / FT Entrepreneur – High hopes to sound the alarm bells across the world – AlertMe in the FT
Playing with the Wii
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
The Nintendo Wii is an astonishing computer, the console for people who don’t play games, nestling next to the TV like a family pet and encouraging those who would normally sneer at a PlayStation to wave their arms around in order to play virtual tennis.
The Wii remote has a lot to do with its success, of course. This motion detecting wireless handheld controller gives players a far more direct sense of engagement with the game than the buttons, pads and triggers of traditional consoles, and accounts for much of the Wii’s success as a family gaming platform.
Like other games systems the Wii is as far from an open platform as you can imagine. Games cost a lot of money to develop, and Nintendo have worked hard to make it difficult to get inside the Wii for fear that easy access would allow games to be copied and distributed.
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on March 1st:
- Free download of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods – Boing Boing – Cory doesn’t like it. Nor do I.
- Neil Gaiman – Neil Gaiman’s Journal: The nature of free – the problem isn’t that books are given away or that people read books they haven’t paid for. The problem is that the majority of people don’t read for pleasure.
- Charles Arthur: Will Olympic athletes be blindfolded? – Charles speculates about restricted net access. At WSIS in Tunisia we got unfiltered access from the conference centre, I recall
- How Phorm plans to tap your internet connection | The Register – Excellent analysis of the privacy nightmare that UK ISPs – including my own until I switch – are planning to unleash on us in their search for revenue
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on February 28th:
- BBC NEWS | Technology | A little less conversation – “I am saddened that the last 20 years of research into human computer interaction, and the last 100 years of research into human psychology and the ways we manage communication with each other, has been totally disregarded by the people discussing social
- Broadcast & Podcast Gadgets 2008: Blast from Bournemouth – Sound advice on microphones.