Archive for February, 2007

PM Blair emails me

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

And 26 thousand others. I’m not normally one for signing petitions and the like but in the case of a biometric national ID card I had to. That is why I signed this online petition. I cannot begin to imagine why people think it is a good idea except that they are […]

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Link to a Youtube vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl= 
Enjoy

More on Law

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

It appears that some law-makers do have a sense of humour:
http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?p=631
Brilliant.

Thoughts on Music

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Steve Jobs has recently posted his “Thoughts on Music”.
Its very well worded; mainly, I think, to try to push any responsibility for DRM onto the big four (Universal, EMI, Sony BMG and Warner). Still it is interesting to note that Steve, and hence Apple inc., would drop DRM in a heartbeat if they didn’t […]

Common sense revolts at the idea

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6329851.stm
‘An EU bid to make internet broadcasters subject to the same laws as traditional television is “seriously misguided”, a House of Lords committee has said.’
Sometimes the House of Lords does something to make me really glad that they exist. Now I’m no expert on the workings of our UK political system, but it seems […]


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