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  • “Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy” – Tim O’Reilly

    I’ll join the throng bookmarking this cogent defense of file sharing from publisher Tim O’Reilly. Tim is the man who made a fortune by selling his early portal, the Global…

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  • A ‘documentary musical’

    I have no idea what it’s like to live in a young offenders’ prison like the notorious Feltham but I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that…

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  • Barbie is among us

    My daughter Billie is three today and yesterday we had a party. Barbie came. I mean the real Barbie. Then she left and fifteen dumbstruck three and four year-olds won’t…

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  • Speechless

    Matt Webb’s account of what happened to him fourteen years ago left me speechless. Link via LINKMACHINEGO.

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  • RSI and accupuncture

    Danny’s got RSI. You can actually see me getting RSI in real time here. My RSI – numbness and loss of strength in my left arm and a horrible pain…

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  • Soho Lunch with Juliet, Azeem and Duncan

    (there’d be a picture here only it’s gone)

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  • Hail Freedonia!

    With the unreality of Firefly’s Freedonia, the British pop media is now entering its third continuous week of multi-page coverage for the fact that the Prime Minister’s wife was made…

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  • An infinitely hot and dense dot

    Geeks – at least those with any vision – dream of ‘the singularity‘. For the social software geeks, this singularity will arrive when information space collapses into a sort of…

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  • Government content? exciting, huh?

    Mike Butcher blogs a deal between the UK Government and MSN to offer Government content to MSN users. Mike draws out an analogy with the recent discussion of Azeem Azhar’s…

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  • So what is next?

    I wrote a piece for The Guardian. I was asked to to write about what I might do next but it was rushed and I wound up cataloguing the current…

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