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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...