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

• AACS DRM tentacles reach far into operating systems: Page 1 – It is time to stop Hollywood – and the content industry generally – imposing their unworkable technologies on us.
• iPlayer Politics: Behind the ISPs vs BBC row | The Register – Good analysis of the video on demand issue facing UK ISPs – highlighted by the BBC’s iPlayer, but not specific to it

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 13th:

• apophenia: loss of context for me on Facebook – and here we have the issue we all face on social network sites. We know how to manage context and context switching in real life, but online the tools don’t support it.
• Internet groups warn BBC over iPlayer plans – Independent Online Edition > Business News – ISP Blackmail? The story reads as if the ISPs are flying a kite to see how much protest there is before they actually move on this, at a time when the BBC’s reputation is under attack elsewhere.

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

• hackademix.net » United Nations VS SQL Injections – Lovely analysis – and sarcastic comment 🙂
• Making Light: Bookstore chain puts the screws on small publishers – Publishers are going to have to find a way around the bookstores – or at least, bookstores like this one

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 10th:

• One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old – ed felten does the right thing with the review laptop
• Obituary: Tony Wilson – Sad day

Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 3rd:

• Microsoft preps first ad-supported client software pilot – Ad-supported software, delivered over the network…
• Bill Thompson on Microsoft’s Open Source Licenses | O’ReillyGMT – Taking my argument a little further on O’Reilly’s EU blog

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’