March 2013
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FutureEverything: Digital Public Spaces →
Very proud to have contributed to this.
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Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? →
(From 2007)
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Intranets: DCMS doing it right →
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Netflix cracks wallet to spur open source cloud... →
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Facebook users unwittingly revealing intimate... →
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Eminem’s Donkey Kong Ambitions →
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BBC News Channel on the move →
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The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase... →
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Super-early iPhone prototype had 5″x7″ screen,... →
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Jonathan Tweed: Telling stories →
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The British history new citizens must learn: no... →
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Weeknotes #6
It was my last week working in Television Centre. Next time I head down to London my department will be based on the third floor of DoSAC; sorry, BBC Media Centre.
Reached a significant milestone in Genome: the first phase of data import into the internal browsing interface is now complete. This means that all of the un-complied, un-corrected data about Radio Times issues from 1923 until the end...
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Dinah Rose quits Liberal Democrats in protest at... →
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French 'invasion force' lands at Gosport →
The French Navy is practising a major invasion on the British mainland
Oh, well that’s perfectly okay, then.
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Opening Product Data for a more responsible world →
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MakerBot announces 3D 'Digitizer' prototype to... →
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XKCD: PGP →
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Java 0day countdown →
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SimCity on Amazon →
Amazon:
Important Note on “SimCity”
Many customers are having issues connecting to the “SimCity” servers. EA is actively working to resolve these issues, but at this time we do not know when the issue will be fixed. Please visit https://help.ea.com/en/simcity/simcity for more information.
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Google strikes deal with MPEG LA for its VP8 video... →
The devil’s in the detail, but “a deal” is potentially a significant improvement upon “take Google’s word for it that VP8 is non-infringing and shoulder any liability”
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DWP denies major IT problems with One Dole To Rule... →
It’s categorically not true to say that work has stopped on Universal Credit. All of our suppliers are working with us to deliver Universal Credit from April. Our plans have not changed.
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BBC Transcript to be used in the wake of a nuclear... →
Somewhat historical, but fascinating. See also the Wikipedia article on the Wartime Broadcasting Service.
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Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of... →
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Gate Tower Building With a Highway Through It →
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Smoking, drinking and living alone: what the... →
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Review: SimCity →
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Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres →
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Groped aka The Hardest Post I’ve Ever Written →
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E-mails between Steve Jobs and James Murdoch →
Arguably, the detail on Amazon is far more interesting than the detail on Apple and HarperCollins.
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Getting ultraviolent about UltraViolet™ →
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Israel introduces 'Palestinian only' bus lines,... →
The Afikim bus company will begin operating Palestinian-only bus lines from the checkpoints to Gush Dan to prevent Palestinians from boarding buses with Jewish passengers. Palestinians are not allowed to enter settlements, and instead board buses from several bus stops on the Trans-Samaria highway.
This is not what progress looks like.
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Weeknotes #5
It was a week of playing catch-up after quite a frantic fortnight. On the plus side, my inbox is no longer the e-mail equivalent of a garden which has become completely overrun with weeds.
We had our K&L Connected Studio judging session this week, characteristically via video-conference. Happily, we reached consensus in the time we’d set aside for it, and didn’t have any huge...
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The lies we tell ourselves: ending comfortable... →
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BBC's new director general warns against reckless... →
You give people the confidence to be bold and run with what they want to do. If things do go wrong then you have to have the confidence to say OK, we got that wrong, let’s learn from it and move on.
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One website for the UK Government. Extraordinary. →
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Stress that Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox →
However, in a direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium with panel data, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower subjective well-being.
(via @libbymiller)
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The Lightning digital AV adapter is a tiny... →
Cripes.
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Dictionary + algorithm + PoD t-shirt printer +... →
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Evernote Security Notice: Service-wide Password... →
Another in a long line. At some point in the not hugely distant future, I predict Java and Flash will be routinely prohibited on corporate machines on information security grounds.
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This shopping centre tracks its customers’ mobile... →
I’d perhaps argue that something which uniquely identifies a mobile phone is almost certainly personal data.
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Jury Finds Occupy Wall Street Protester Innocent... →
Michael Premo was found innocent of all charges yesterday after his lawyers presented video evidence directly contradicting the version of events offered by police and prosecutors.
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Letter: Is the NUJ stopping bad journalists from... →
Note: I don’t know the answer.
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Blocking BitTorrent sites doesn’t stop piracy—but... →
No shit.
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Sheffield stadium where Jessica Ennis trained for... →
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Lord Sugar and Richard Desmond in furious... →
One to read about in Tim Davie’s eventual memoirs, I suspect.
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Horse-Meat Testing Finds Something Even Worse: No... →
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Government ‘manipulated’ DLA figures to try to... →
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claimed that the number of DLA claimants was increasing, but neglected to point out that working-age recipients have actually been falling.
