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It’s been ten years
Thanks to Neil McIntosh for linking to this piece about Mosaic’s tenth birthday. It is my fervent ambition that one day I will be required, like Jim Clark, to say something like this: “The economic appetite is gone,” he says. Netscape “changed my life so incredibly, it’s hard to comprehend. I made more than a…
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Wars, real and virtualThis week, in my column for The Guardian’s web site, I finally caved in and wrote about the war. We can’t take it for granted that our increasing interconnectedness and access to information will give us any new insights or improve our identification with those on whom we inflict war…
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Dyke kicks Sky into touch
A great rift has opened up between the BBC and Sky and more than a decade of servitude is over. The BBC will, from the end of May, broadcast its channels unencrypted on a new Astra Satellite with a smaller, UK-only, footprint. Most people, including me, don’t really understand what this means (do I have…
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Cheer up, it might never happen…
Dave Birch, who should know, on the coming collision of wireless networks, GPS and RFID tags in The Guardian. Dave’s pretty level headed about the implications but I’m sure that this has the potential for a major technology panic. As I’ve pointed out here a dozen times before, though, every new technology is born into…
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Lovely prints
Thanks to the excellent Kookymojo for this link to a fascinating site about Iris fine art (‘giclee‘) printers. I have one of Michael Light’s gorgeous black & white moon prints which I thought was made on an Iris but I now learn used another digital method called Direct-Digital Color Coupler (I wonder if they changed…
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For the record…
You’ll have read this in dozens of places already (like, for instance, The Hollywood Reporter and The Bristol Evening Post) but I thought I ought to mark the really quite important news that the BBC is making deep cuts at BBCi, its online and interactive division, and that these cuts will come principally from the…
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Business idea
Movies are distributed to cinemas via satellite (or even the Internet) these days, right? I mean, I assume trucking cans of celluloid around the country is more or less finished (correct me if I’m wrong…). So, the economics of running a cinema must have been transformed in the last few years. I notice that, after…
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Beats ‘win a year’s supply of Lion Bars’
You can enter a competition in this week’s New Scientist to have your mitochondrial DNA sequenced. This is one of those mind-bogglingly 21st Century things that we now take utterly for granted but would once have taken twenty technicians and a roomful of those black cubes covered in little blinking red lights about a year…
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Butterfly about to emerge
I learn from The Guardian that Richard Wilson’s Butterfly is nearly finished and this Sunday evening at 7.00 he’ll be talking about it (among other things) in a panel discussion at The Wapping Centre. You need to call 020 7253 3334 to get your name on the list. Maybe I’ll see you there. I blogged…
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Thompson grills Lessig
Bill Thompson’s interview with Lawrence Lessig in The Guardian. Weirdly, I watched Bill record this interview and here’s a pic to prove it… Bill is on the left.