2 August 2010
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As part of my occasional series on organisations which think they can tell you where and where not to link to them, I found a classic of the genre at easyJet’s website. Not only are they under the entirely mistaken … Continue reading
13 April 2010
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One of the things that the Digital Economy Act includes is a requirement for ISPs to email or write to their customers when instructed to do so by copyright owners – the so-called “three strikes” warnings. Here’s what the text … Continue reading
9 April 2010
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I wonder how many people supporting the Digital Economy Bill have ever borrowed a book from one of their friends? For that matter, have any of them ever bought a second-hand book? How many of them have sat in a … Continue reading
8 April 2010
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One of the things that has been a repeated meme in various blog posts and tweets related to the Digital Economy Bill over the past couple of days has been the seemingly low numbers of MPs in the chamber of … Continue reading
7 April 2010
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Sad political (and Internet) nerd that I am, I watched most of the House of Commons debate on the Digital Economy Bill last night on BBC parliament rather than following Arsenal’s single-handed defeat by Lionel Messi at the Nou Camp. … Continue reading
27 February 2010
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I’ve been working on a new website recently called They Blog For You, an aggregator of blogs by MPs. Part of the work involved in setting it up has been to try to track down all the blogs by sitting MPS. … Continue reading
28 January 2010
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http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/geopostcode/ Many of you will probably remember the news story a while ago about the forced closure of ernestmarples.com, a website which provided a free postcode geolocation API that was, in turn, used by several other organisations running public service … Continue reading
25 November 2009
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If the civil libertarians, the conspiracy theorists and the Conservatives had their way, Abdul Azad would probably never have been caught. Azad was convicted of a brutal stranger rape in Stafford in July 2005 after fragments of his skin were … Continue reading
25 November 2009
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In the course of a discussion about fixed v fluid width layouts for web pages, I dared to make the comment that fixed width design can actually be a usability bonus in some cases – something which is close to … Continue reading
23 November 2009
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Hot on the heels of an EU regulation that could, if actually implemented and enforced, destroy the advertising-supported economy of websites based in Europe, the British government comes up with a proposal of its own that is equally ludicrous. For … Continue reading