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Tag: web-2.0

  • Tech and the future part one: Nick Clegg — internet saviour?

    In his latest book, Nick Clegg unveils a plan to keep the internet free and democratic. But does he understand the internet, or what his former Silicon Valley colleagues actually want?

    Tech and the future part one: Nick Clegg — internet saviour?

  • You are all individuals! (Obamamania)

    I didn’t watch Obama’s inauguration this evening. Instead, I sat on the bus reading the coverage on Twitter. For some reason, reading all these excited 140-character messages about Obama bigging up the atheists and getting down with the gays (or possibly not) – interspersed with irrelevancies – reminded me quite a lot of this:

  • Nine wishes for 2009 #1: Lembit Opik to prove me wrong

    Partly, admittedly, because I set up a Google Alert of his name earlier this year during the Presidential election, Lembit Opik never stops getting in my face. His latest interview was in Wales On Sunday yesterday (odd since just a week ago Lembit was dismissing the same paper as “poor use of [his] time“). Regarding…

  • Social bookmarking-a-go-go

    You’ll have noticed that I’ve got rather carried away with social bookmarking “vote” buttons (to the right if you are reading the blog at source). Why? Well, LibDig has been a small success but I’m keen to explore how to what extent I can use these things to widen my blogs’ reach. I started experimenting…

  • Crisis on Multiple Tweets

    It seems a milestone has been passed. Just three months ago, Rory Cellan-Jones and – it seemed – half the professional journalists out there who were aware of teh internets (both of them) were upbraiding me for my “pompous” invasion of poor Rory’s privacy by quoting one of his tweets on my blog. Yet last…