Showing posts with label london. Show all posts
Showing posts with label london. Show all posts
06 January 2013

Mayor Of London Says Internet To Blame For British Press Sins

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The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson , is something of an institution in the UK, famous for his blond mop of hair and outrageous opinions....
30 June 2012

London Police Want To Crowdsource Guilt-Free Surveillance

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One of the earliest proposals for mass surveillance was the Panopticon:  On Techdirt .
27 April 2012

London 2012 Olympics Win Gold Medal For Cluelessness By Banning Video And Photo Uploads To Social Media During Games

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As Techdirt has reported , the London 2012 Olympics bring with them a range of "special" measures guaranteed to make London a p...
26 February 2010

Schneier Nails it on CCTV Folly

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Another brilliant essay on security from Bruce Schneier. It's all well-worth reading, but here's the nub: If universal surveillanc...
08 February 2010

Crowdsourcing + Open Source: the Perfect Combination for Startups?

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Crowdsourcing represents an interesting attempt to generalise the open source methodology to non-technical areas. The basic idea is to tap i...
13 July 2009

National Portrait Gallery: Nuts

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This is so wrong: Below is a letter I received from legal representatives of the National Portrait Gallery, London, on Friday, July 10, reg...
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26 March 2009

Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2009

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If open knowledge is your thing, London is the place, Saturday the time: The Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) is back for its fourth insta...
23 February 2009

London Open Source Writers Meetup

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As an experiment, @codepope and I have arranged to meet up as a possible kernel of open-sourcey writerish activity in London tonight. Anyo...
09 February 2009

Open Tech 2009

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Good to see more openness being spread around: *What is OpenTech 2009?* - Open Tech 2009 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on sl...
10 December 2008

Someone Once Told Me...About CC Licences

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I'm a big fan of black and white photography. Without the distraction of colours, it seems to me that you look more deeply at the image...
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10 November 2008

It's Morphic Resonance All Over Again

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Last week I was talking at the Open Everything meeting in London, where I went through some (most) of my tropes about openness and the crea...
03 November 2008

From Open... to Open Everything

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You've read the blog, now visit the conference : On 6 November 2008, London will host an Open Everything event, a global conversation ab...
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31 August 2008

A City of Shared Stories

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Now that's what I call a mashup ....
30 August 2008

The Greening - and Maturing - of Boris

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Despite previously attacking the Kyoto Protocol - which regulates international carbon emissions - as "pointless" and saying that ...
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19 August 2008

Open Source (Still) Seeds the Startups

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On Open Enterprise blog .
03 August 2008

Bananas About London Bananas

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Whoever thinks blogging is a sad, soulless activity is clearly bananas . (Via Boing Boing .)
21 April 2008

Is This the Season of Porcine Aerobatics?

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On Open Enterprise blog .
16 January 2008

Openads Who?

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On Open Enterprise blog .
06 December 2007

Behold! The New Anti-Open Access FUD

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As I've noted before, I'm something of a connoisseur of FUD, and I really like coming across new examples. Here's one , direct...
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19 November 2007

OpenSolaris CIFS Server: Colour Me Confused

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The goal of this project is to provide a native, integrated CIFS implementation to support OpenSolaris as a storage operating system. The Op...
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