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Telecoms mast toppled – singularity deferred
Here’s a tough reminder that technology always exists in a (potentially hostile) human context. People respond to technology and to change in complicated and often contradictory ways. As a result,…
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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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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…