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The final brick in the wall of the security state? 20 Aug 2013 | 09:43 am
I don’t have a problem with sending journalists to gaol. Sometimes we break the law, and sometimes we do it in ways that are not defensible as being in the public interest, or for reasons that are no...
The State of the Intersection: my #opentech talk 18 May 2013 | 07:54 pm
At Opentech 2013 today I gave a talk about the ‘State of the Intersection’ as part of a wider debate about the value of open data with Gavin Starks from the ODI. This is the text I wrote beforehand, a...
Connecting 13 Mar 2013 | 05:47 pm
I spent most of today in the company of a group of fascinating people who work at the NHK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, my hosts while I’m here in Tokyo. T...
LiveCode Kickstarter 17 Feb 2013 | 01:54 pm
Five years ago I had the great pleasure of hanging out with Colin Holgate, who was behind many of the Voyager CD-ROM titles that pioneerd interactive multimedia. We spent a few days in a meeting room...
BBC Click Live on robots 30 Jan 2013 | 08:23 pm
BBC Click Live on robots, a photo by Rain Rabbit on Flickr. Rain posted this nice pic of Gareth and me at last night’s show
Sharing Digital Skills 27 Jan 2013 | 04:55 pm
On January 17 I took part in the Reading Agency/Publishers Association conference at the rather lovely Canada Water Library in Southwark, where we discussed ways for libraries to embrace new technolo...
My pledge: I will not speak on/moderate all-male panels at conferences. 7 Jan 2013 | 10:05 pm
A couple of days ago tech writer Rebecca Rosen published an article in The Atlantic in which she made a modest proposal that could begin to address the enormous gender imbalance she’d observed at tech...
Holiday reading 28 Dec 2012 | 04:35 am
Over at Memex 1.1 the redoubtable John Naughton talks about his holiday reading, and makes me feel guilty that most of mine has been
I’m bored with Posterous. 26 Dec 2012 | 05:45 pm
So I’ve given The Billblog a makeover and decided to trust Flickr to fix itself…. we’ll see how that goes, but don’t expect much action [there]. I’ll leave the stuff [there] – every URI is sacred, af...
Fast Ducks 26 Dec 2012 | 05:41 pm
Fast Ducks a video by BillT on Flickr. Fast flowing river, adventurous ducks…
