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A series of tubes… with borders?

<rant> Is it just me, or is the Internet increasingly becoming a bordered world? From iTunes store accounts linked to credit cards, to GeoIP technology, it seems that services are relying more and more on being focused on one, geo-politically … Continue reading

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An observation

Top Gear, series 11, episode 3. Time difference from broadcast to posting on iPlayer: 1 hour Time difference from broadcast to availability (in presumably higher quality) via BitTorrent: 2 hours Impressive no? Especially as the BitTorrent release groups have to … Continue reading

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ETech notes from Day Two (so far)

ETech 2007 continues to roll along. We managed to catch up with Ian Forrester of BBC Backstage today – some nice collaborations could happen there. Also continued discussions with Jeff Parsons and Jerry Goldman on some OYEZ stuff that we’re … Continue reading

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BBC Jam

An item of immediate to all who view the BBC as a public educational leader. Just who are the complaints? And where are the commercial interests that are supposedly being run rough-shod over? And perhaps yet another reason (as if … Continue reading

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What UK’s copyright industries are up to

The latest developments in the ongoing and ill-informed IP debate from my well-informed fellow copyfighter Cory Doctorow. The very phrase ‘intellectual property‘ gives me the shivers, but that’s a story for another day. I’ll let Adam Singer’s rhetoric speak for … Continue reading

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