5 May 2012
by Mark
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Aside from the election results in London and elsewhere, there have been a couple of other interesting news stories this week. The first is the injunction granted by the High Court ordering a group of ISPs to block access to … Continue reading
3 May 2012
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Someone asked a question on Usenet: Supposing the Army wanted to station missiles on my roof to shoot down Olympic miscreants, what powers and legislation would they be relying on to enable them to do this? How might I stop … Continue reading
25 March 2012
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David Cameron, when asked why he isn’t on Twitter, once memorably replied that “too many tweets might make a twat“. It’s a lesson well worth learning, although as a regular Twitter user myself I have to admit that it isn’t … Continue reading
14 February 2012
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There’s a meme going round Twitter at the moment, which reads: If the world’s richest 10 people renounced their wealth, the world’s 1 billion hungry human beings can be fed for 250 years with the money. I can’t find any … Continue reading
11 February 2012
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There’s much wailing and gnashing of teeth this morning in the media regarding the ruling by a court that Bideford Town Council doesn’t have the right to hold prayers as part of the meeting. This article by the BBC is … Continue reading
29 January 2012
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A minor ripple of news yesterday concerned the fact that Curebit, a “social referral platform”, had been caught ripping off the design and layout of Highrise, a 37 Signals product. 37 Signals, of course, are probably more famous for their … Continue reading
19 January 2012
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Journalist David Aaronovitch has a full page opinion article in The Times today, which I can’t link to as it isn’t openly available online, in which he complains that “There’s nothing noble in this Wiki blackout”. Although the article is … Continue reading
7 January 2012
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Courtesy of an article in El Reg, I discovered an interesting report prepared by US think-tank American Assembly and Columbia University. Rather drily titled “Copyright Infringement and Enforcement in the US“, it’s a summarised set of results from an extensive … Continue reading
2 January 2012
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According to a press release from the BPI, sales of digital music rocketed in 2011: Adele’s 21 reaches 3.8m sales – the biggest-ever selling album in a single year. Fourth successive year of record singles sales, up 10.0% to 177.9m … Continue reading
1 January 2012
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An article in today’s Sunday Times (sorry, no link due to the Murdoch anti-journalism paywall) is headlined “Pirates plunder ebooks trade”. As you might expect from the title, it’s all about how publishers are suffering from unauthorised downloads. This was … Continue reading