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Online TV – Solving a problem that does not exist

By Bear

Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw creating problems to solve Last June, the UK government, in their wisdom, decided that getting everyone on broadband is absolutely vital for the future of this country; if a member of the public cannot watch Eastenders via the Internet then we have somehow eroded their fundamental rights and the quality... »

Nothing New on the web then

By Bear

WBS - Social Networking in 1996 I was looking over Rory Cellan Jones‘ look back over his blogging year on the BBC. Looking at the sort of subjects he has covered, to be honest, this is no different from any other year since the Internet became popular – just involved more people and different companies.... »

Will we lose Africa to Technology?

By Old Boar

Rwanda - © bbc The techy division of the BBC has been taking a trip into Africa – Kenya and Rwanda, to be precise. The last few days have seen them in Rwanda talking to the ministry responsible for rolling out the Internet to the country, and the hope for Rwanda becoming the most computerised... »

Why I want to opt in and not opt out

By Old Boar

The World Wide Beast is a strange creature. It has grown up over the last couple of decades with a remarkable lack of direction and a fair amount of misdirection (and one heck of a lot of misinformation.) If it had been conceived and inaugurated by government, the Orwellian nature of the system (especially... »

Data Freedom versus Privacy – the great conundrum

By Bear

With Sir Tim Berners-Lee taking on an advisory role to the UK government on how data can be freed up into the public domain, the idea of freeing data has come up for discussion again. It is generally agreed by most non-totalitarians that making government data public is a good thing; we don’t want our... »