Tuesday, March 31, 2009

SCRIPT-ed Conference: Twitter Madness!

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Pangloss is now at the second day of SCRIPT-ed which is, as expected, both fascinating and well attended. Have taken various types of notes...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Stross/Doctorow event, May 1 London

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This is well worth advertising- wish I could be there! http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/27/ope n-rights-group-be.html Charlie Stross and I ...

Facebook reaches 200 million members

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Interesting graphics from the New York Times on the rise and rise of Facebook: which has doubled its global membership from 100 to 200 milli...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

Just has to be quoted

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The venerable IPKat has stepped away from his normal utter respectability to nail my also esteemed colleague Geeklawyer: " The IPKat ha...
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Democracy Comes to Facebook?

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Facebook is soliciting public comments on proposed new terms and conditions - see Facebook Principles Rights and Responsibilities Pangloss i...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Google Street View - Up Your Street?

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Many of my friends and colleagues have been having fun with Google Street View since it went live in the UK last week . My social networking...
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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Great News Euro GikII PHiles!

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"GikII 4, Amsterdam 2009 The fourth installment of GikII will take place on 17-18 September 2009 in Amsterdam, hosted by the Institute ...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Facebook U-Turn on New Terms and Conditions

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Following Facebook's recent climbdown on their change of terms & conditions to continue claiming a license to use and publish user ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

When MI5 tell you the state is spying on its citizens too much...

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.. they're probably right? Stella Rimington, our very own real life M, in unlikeliest declaration of support for the forces of light of...
Monday, February 16, 2009

It's Sooooooooo GikII!!

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I'm very happy to announce that the success of GikII over the last three years has spawned an Australian spin-off, to be known as SoGikI...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Countdown to the Digital Britain report..

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Latest from The Times : "Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout the law by illegally sh...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Google times are here again

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Pangloss has found (via Google, how else!?) a rather interesting blog called http://blogoscoped.com/ . It contains a little gem called Googl...

Interesting times: Pope Lambasts Facebook

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The Pope, no doubt flushed with the media attention paid to his launching of a new Pope-Channel on You Tube, has also weighed in against Fr...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

Security: Two factor Authentication Spreads

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One for Technollama this :-) We all know about the physical tokens or dongles you can now get to provide two factor authentication for your ...
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BERR, the music industry and file sharing: also stupid porn law ideas

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Sorry for long silence. A bit of a catch up here of some recent very important stories.. Ray Corrigan helpfully reminds me that the Departm...

BILETA 2009, April 21-23, Winchester

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And more!! BILETA 2009 - The 24th Annual Conference Tuesday 21 - Thursday 23 April 2009 Hosted by the University of Winch...

SCRIPT-ed conference

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Apologies to anyone who has seen this before, but this is a potentially fantastic conference, worthy of re-promotion! The editors of the w...
Monday, December 15, 2008

IWF v Wikipedia and the Rest of the World (except OUT-LAW)

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Ever late to the party, still-bronchitic Pangloss would just like to make a few points about the Great Wikipedia Cleanfeed Debacle , if onl...
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Gowers Rides Again

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Stunning polemic by Andrew Gowers, author of the eponymous report, in the FT today . Disses term extension of sound recording copyright, an...

Cyber(in)security roundup

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Producing the Macafee VCR makes you more than normally aware that every vendor and their (robo)dog , plus apparently most NGOs, produces a r...