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Free speech meets newspapers, web
There seems to be a real and very worrying misunderstanding of what ‘freedom of speech’ is really about. In my mind, free speech is about adding to a dialogue, not subtracting from and diminishing in such a way as to make the dialogue meaningless.
I have to be selfish for a moment, and indulge my own [...]
Spock gets pinch on finding people
Be you the ardent journalist, the voracious researcher or the sweating voyeur, Spock really does apply some very lateral thinking to a common, logical problem. And the problem? Finding stuff about someone in particular on the ‘Net.
Oh, you can just use Google for crap like that, surely? Well, yes. But if you’ve ever performed a [...]
Internet censorship and Digg democracy
Censorship on the ‘Net is a fiery issue currently burning holes through the web in unusual places. It’s contentious, debatable and causing some consternation for some. So why is the idea of calling for some silence or some order on the web the cause of so much dismay?
And just how could Digg be the saviour [...]
Netvibes Universe, Box.net embedded
Looks like Netvibes are planning something major, spaciously entitled “Netvibes Universe” which conjures up all kinds of notions. To celebrate this event, they’re inviting ‘600 of their closest friends’, which also conjures up all kinds of notions, specifically, beyond 100 friends, close or otherwise, could you name them all?
Anyway, despite my previous glowing review of [...]
Firefox, Folkd sniff social glue
As you may have read recently, either here or elsewhere, Mozilla has announced an early development release of a social Add-On extension called The Coop to their Firefox web browser. Almost immediately, thoughts turned to Flock, fellow stable mate and web browser with special social glue.
However, with Mozilla proposing similar social stickiness for Firefox, Flock [...]
