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Popper, Soros, and Pseudo-Masochism
A new report by intellectual property campaigners has again put the UK on the naughty step. This year, as last year, activists list the UK alongside Brazil and Thailand as having the most “oppressive”...
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Shoreditch’s sparkle leaves BBC presenter ‘tech-struck’
“I haven’t felt so good having spoken to a businessman for ten minutes in about 25 years. That’s not normally how I feel! So thanks very much!” And thanks to you, BBC presenter Fi Glover, for sharing...
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Orphans, giants, and your disappearing digital rights
They’re at it again. Who? Take a guess: if it’s not the Daily Mail, then it’s probably the BBC. The corporation has once again been caught pinching photos, wrongly attributing them, and pretending...
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The IPO Enquiry
Sketches from the three hearings held by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Intellectual Property’s enquiry into the IPO in April and May 2012 Hearing No.1: 25th April 2012 A Westminster...
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Windows Metro Maoist cadres reach the desktop, and pound it flat
The revolutionary dogma of Metro is sweeping through the old Windows desktop, too, a new leak of Window 8 confirms. The leaked build, newer than the public release of a fortnight ago, abandons the 3D...
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The Open Rights Group gets rights wrong. Again
When Open Rights Group executive director Jim Killock opens his mouth, his foot soon disappears inside. The UK’s leading digital rights advocate has just demonstrated still more difficulty...
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How to fix the broken internet economy
How can we begin to unpick the tangled mess that the technology and creative industries have created? There’s certainly no shortage of blame to go around. In the past every new wave of technology has...
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Why do sheep need Twitter?
Spot the broadband user in this picture A House of Lords committee this week declared that British taxpayers must foot the bill for an internet that nobody wants – unless perhaps they have a second...
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“The price of nothing”
Kim DotcomKim Dotcom has a new service, with features that Forbes calls “See No Evil, Store No Evil”. But perhaps that should be “see no value, store no value”. I have not come to mock the rotund...
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On Nudge
No 10’s controversial “nudge unit” has been spun out into a company – but it hasn’t fallen far from the nest. The 16-strong Behavioural Insights Team (as it’s known) will become a private entity and...
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