Well, maybe not an artist in the sense of performer, but certainly a programme maker, Graham Linehan (of Father Ted and the IT Crowd fame) has an interesting opinion on the topic of internet piracy and proposed rules to prevent it.
Entries Tagged as 'Internet'
Internet piracy: an artist’s perspective
September 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Internet piracy: an artist’s perspective · Technology
Tags: Internet
Sitting at home can be expensive
September 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Sitting at home can be expensive · Life
The internet has made it easy to get skint without leaving the comfort of your own home hasn’t it?  Got home from work this evening and finally got round to sposoring Eddie Izzard for his marathon of marathons. I have been following his progress on Twitter, getting increasingly impressed by the achievement, and intending to […]
Jump to it
September 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on Jump to it · Technology
I have known about tinyurl for a long time, noticed the inexorable rise of bit.ly – helped along by Twitter reaching some sort of tipping point. I finally got round to investigating these URL-shorteners and decided to go with tr.im and mere weeks later a new one has come along: j.mp. It is all a […]
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Council secrecy in Crawley
September 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Politics
One of the local papers this week has a story that is not only interesting, but even displays an element of investigative journalism and even a surprise.   It would have been more impressive if it had been published six weeks ago when the council meeting and vote that it relates to actually occurred – I […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Freemasons·Horsham Council·Internet·secret squirrel·WSCC
Crowdsourced traffic
August 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Technology
Google’s announcement about expanding traffic information on Google Maps (in the US) is fascinating stuff both technically and sociologically. What they are doing is collecting data from mobile phones that have GPS-type functionality and tracking how quickly they are moving along main highways so that information about traffic problems can be overlaid on their maps […]
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Digital Apocalypse
August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Digital Apocalypse · Life, Technology
With Twitter sporadically up and down due to DDOS attacks, Facebook playing up enormously to the extent it is unusable for some people, and even Livejournal being unavailable, it is not a good day for social networking – but its not the end of the world: Spotify and Flickr are fine and that’s all that […]
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To tweet or not to tweet?
July 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Technology
The new phone has all sorts of features. Most of them are defined by initials, some of which I understand but many I don’t. It has wi-fi, GPS, 3G, DLNA, UMTS, HSUPA and HSDP for a start. For all I know it has LOL and NSFW too. One thing I do know is that the […]
Bloody iTunes
July 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Technology
I think I have wondered in the past exactly when it was that Tony Benn switched from being the bogeyman to being a national treasure, well now I am wondering when Apple reached their tipping point on their journey in the opposite direction. It used to be that Microsoft had everything tied up and Apple […]
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Twitter ye not!
June 11th, 2009 · Comments Off on Twitter ye not! · Politics, Technology
Today I logged into Twitter for the first time. I have avoided it thus far because I can’t really see the appeal. It looks like the sort of thing that is only going to be worthwhile if it is used on a mobile – and I don’t use my mobile for internet use at all. […]
More temptation
June 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on More temptation · Technology
I got a letter from Virgin Media yesterday, telling me that 50Mb broadband is now available here…  very tempting. That is starting to get respectable – but still there is the frustration that the upstream speed is only 1.5Mb. (As somebody who remembers feeling dizzy when v.32bis came out I feel slightly odd saying “only […]
Tags: Internet·Virgin Media
