https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=93086 2026-02-17T06:54:20Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=93086 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > digital economy “When we talk about AI that’s ‘good’ for the planet, it’s often predictive models, extractive models, or old-school AI models.” https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1670009 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report 2026-02-17T06:54:20Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1669484 https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/09/18/tech-sector-growth-stocks-sp-500-invest-portfolio/ 2026-01-04T08:55:38Z Since the prize in that race is global supremacy, there are few incentives for either side to fret about risks, or sign up to international protocols restricting the uses of AI and mandating transparency in its development. Neither the US n... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1668093 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/artificial-intelligence-ai-bubble-bursts-humans-take-back-control 2025-12-24T07:46:01Z OpenAI for Countries, does what it says on the tin. It’s designed to embed OpenAI’s models and infrastructure inside the machinery of states, becoming an invaluable, indefatigable part of the running of our lives. OpenAI is in talks wi... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1667961 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/18/george-osborne-openai-big-tech-political-hires 2025-12-19T16:05:21Z “With most standard product development jobs, you know exactly what you just built,” said ChatGPT’s Turley “You know how it’s going to behave. With this job, it’s the first time I’ve worked in a technology where you have to go... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1667499 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/dec/01/its-going-much-too-fast-the-inside-story-of-the-race-to-create-the-ultimate-ai 2025-12-01T15:14:15Z Iceland’s former prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, has said that the Icelandic language could be wiped out in as little as a generation due to the sweeping rise of AI and encroaching English language dominance. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1666898 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/15/icelandic-is-in-danger-of-dying-out-because-of-ai-and-english-language-media-says-former-pm 2025-11-16T09:56:48Z This fact points to a strategy that entertainment executives fear far more than AI, one that would empower artists to challenge the status quo across big content and big tech: organised labour. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1666897 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/15/big-content-ai-entertainment-media-conglomerates-tech 2025-11-16T09:54:03Z Robot chefs are replacing humans at some South Korean highway restaurants. Tech companies say robots can help solve labor shortage in an aging nation. Workers say their roles have been downgraded from chefs to cleaning staff. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1663047 https://restofworld.org/2025/robot-chefs-south-korea-restaurants/ 2025-05-17T06:41:32Z The open web search infrastructure will not only contribute to Europe’s sovereignty for navigating and searching the web. It will benefit us all as citizens. Based on our own preferences, we will finally have a real choice again when choo... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1663046 https://openwebsearch.eu/the-project/ 2025-05-17T06:38:04Z Social networks have two stable equilibria: either everyone uses them, or no-one uses them. In contrast, nonsocial apps (e.g. weather apps, exercise apps) can exist [somewhere] along a continuum of adoption. The binary nature of social netw... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1662596 https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-04-18-chatty-zucky-is-you-taking-notes-on-a-criminal-fucking-conspiracy-a449f6aa35ad 2025-04-27T09:12:43Z Gifts were the biggest contributor to the total, accounting for more than 93% of emissions, according to ClimatePartner, which carried out the analysis on behalf of the Guardian, using market research provided by Finder. It found the averag... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1660098 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/24/average-briton-causes-23-times-more-co2-on-christmas-day-study-reveals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 2024-12-25T08:11:51Z When Google announced it was integrating AI-generated summaries into its search engine earlier this year, it brandished a bold slogan: “Let Google do the searching for you.” It’s an appealing idea that plays on our fondness for conven... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1659139 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/03/the-chatbot-optimisation-game-can-we-trust-ai-web-searches 2024-11-03T14:43:57Z Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund that will allow developing nations to benefit from advances in the technology, according to a UN report. The fund would help provide models, comput... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1658553 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/19/global-ai-fund-needed-to-help-developing-nations-tap-tech-benefits-un-says 2024-09-19T06:53:38Z Google's dominance in search, which a federal court recently ruled as an illegal monopoly, has positioned the company as a powerful player in the emerging AI industry. This has led to accusations of unfair competition, especially as the AI ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657971 https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4347934/googles-ai-generated-summaries-leave-publishers-concerned 2024-08-20T12:09:36Z Owen Sayers, who made the FoI request, said, "the statements from Microsoft make clear that they 100% cannot comply with UK data protection law... "They've confirmed for the first time that a guarantee of sovereignty for data at rest (which... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657676 https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4326683/microsoft-guarantee-uk-sovereignty 2024-06-24T11:47:46Z “We found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,” the report said. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657517 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/12/workplace-ai-robots-trackers-quality-of-life-institute-for-work 2024-03-13T07:16:06Z Last Wednesday was a landmark moment for the tech industry, or at any rate for that part of it that aspires to do business in the EU. It was the day when six of the biggest companies in the world had to start complying with the EU’s Digit... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657514 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/09/painful-day-for-tech-titans-as-eu-finally-sinks-its-regulatory-teeth-into-them 2024-03-10T08:07:52Z Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657484 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/10/fighting-the-smartphone-invasion-the-french-village-that-voted-to-ban-scrolling-in-public 2024-02-10T07:41:22Z Golden has been designed from the start to encourage a deep, extensive view on knowledge. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657453 https://golden.com/blog/introducing-golden/ 2024-01-02T11:03:01Z The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657440 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/eu-agrees-historic-deal-with-worlds-first-laws-to-regulate-ai 2023-12-09T08:56:46Z the court held that the exclusion was not invoked — s... not “a program for a computer … as such.” The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that: “Patent examiners should not object to inventions invo ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657439 https://briefings.brownrudnick.com/post/102iub6/english-high-court-decision-ai-inventions-are-patentable 2023-12-06T15:28:32Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1653300 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11010077/Chinese-courts-allow-AI-make-rulings-charge-people-carry-punishments.html 2022-07-17T13:23:23Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1650792 https://www.ebac.com/about/ 2021-11-07T07:40:09Z “A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 2... creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have ... “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait... they start to rethink their design decisions.” And it’s not just tha https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1613583 https://www.fastcodesign.com/90132364/nest-founder-i-wake-up-in-cold-sweats-thinking-what-did-we-bring-to-the-world 2017-07-12T10:23:49Z The world of civic tech has changed radically in the las... of the old bastions of transparency and civic innovation... crumble, shrinking dramatically in both size and scope. ... the future of civic tech will appear radically different... from under https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1581808 https://medium.com/@krues8dr/the-end-of-the-second-act-of-civic-tech-2d8d9c766309#.26anmzodm 2016-10-15T14:39:31Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1568166 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/fashion/internet-technology-phones-introspection.html?_r=1 2016-06-12T19:49:06Z A set of standards to drive the Scottish Government’s ... online platform has been released. The document runs through the minimum standards required ... It outlines 21 criteria that should be attained in creat ... Other standards include a requirement https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1562076 http://www.digitalbydefaultnews.co.uk/2016/05/20/standards-revealed-for-scottish-governments-mygov-scot-platform/ 2016-05-23T09:16:50Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1558984 http://uk.businessinsider.com/evernote-the-first-dead-unicorn-2015-9 2015-09-19T18:30:03Z “I need a car to pick me up at my hotel and take me to... as collaborative as “my yard looks like crap and I rea... cheap landscaper.” You’re talking about buying and s... Let me ask you this: if someone pushed out an escort-boo ... Context mat https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1502424 http://olivierblanchard.net/stop-calling-it-the-sharing-economy-that-isnt-what-it-is/ 2015-08-11T10:55:25Z Fresh out of Harvard in 2005, Leila Janah landed a job a... consultant. 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Many people ... mostly because the announcement came the day before Apri... also becaus https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1464900 http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-horror-of-amazons-new-dash-button 2015-04-06T11:54:42Z The Valley has bought into the idea of itself as a merit... self-starting, bootstrapping geniuses so much better and... anyone else in the world that they deserve wildly dispro... opportunities for wealth and power. The problem is that ... opposite of https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1440823 http://www.technologyreview.com/qa/533096/a-feminist-critique-of-silicon-valley/ 2014-12-10T09:45:25Z Women currently hold more than 51% of all professional o... In 1991, women held 37% of all computing-related occupat ... Women comprise 34% of web developers; 23% of programmers ... Women hold 19% of CIO positions at Fortune 250 companies ... Among the t https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1440822 http://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technical-women 2014-12-10T09:42:29Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1426889 http://www.hive.co.uk/about-us/ 2014-10-30T17:17:40Z A company that controls thousands of New York City’s p... advertising displays has planted tiny radio transmitters... “beacons” — devices that can be used to track peop... — in hundreds of pay phone booths in Manhattan, BuzzFe... And it’s https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1408966 http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/exclusive-hundreds-of-devices-hidden-inside-new-york-city-ph#27nifpo 2014-10-07T09:47:09Z More than 60 percent of the world’s population remains... removing crucial deterrents to Internet adoption, little... more than 4 billion people may be left behind. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1406735 http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet/offline_and_falling_behind_barriers_to_internet_adoption 2014-10-03T13:52:16Z Valuable data should be published and used as a public g... economy and society. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1373483 http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-administration-select-committee/news/open-data-substantive/ 2014-06-12T12:36:15Z Bitcoin is giving banks a run for their money. Now the s... threatens to eradicate social networks, stock markets, e... governments. Are we heading towards an anarchic future w... power of any kind will dissolve? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1373028 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10881213/The-coming-digital-anarchy.html 2014-06-10T11:45:34Z A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon ... extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly –... developmental biology that we – and most other Drosoph... biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in... print. 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My fellowship year clarified more problem... Instead, I’ll offer a question: How can we build empat... Well, first https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1292782 http://www.codeforamerica.org/2014/01/06/people-not-data/ 2014-01-08T08:05:33Z Catalog your physical CDs and use the Virtual CD feature... what CDs you own and at the same time see which subset o... CDs are copied to your hard drive. Instead of tracking y... separately, the virtual CD function gives you an integra... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1262689 http://www.mediamonkey.com/information/gold/ 2013-12-19T15:22:09Z Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on hi... twisted interpretation. I for one carry on his work by k... outside the file, as he did. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1260929 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/an-homage-to-douglas-engelbart-and-a-critique-of-the-state-of-tech/?_r=0 2013-12-18T10:56:11Z internet-290.jpg In the nineteen-seventies, the Internet was a small, dec ... This is not the Internet we know today. 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The campaign and re... complex sup https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1109782 http://www.fairphone.com/ 2013-09-17T20:03:46Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1108746 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24091393 2013-09-16T13:23:17Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1029394 http://wp.sigmod.org/?p=832 2013-03-24T17:56:58Z The question of what happens to the surplus is really ir... is one specific project. The idea is interesting. If thi... different software projects, I think we might find more ... the part of developers to implement certain large pieces... Alternative https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1029361 https://10kblogger.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/how-kickstarter-will-kill-open-source/ 2013-03-24T14:03:40Z What Google has actually done is create a powerful infra... shape of that infrastructure influences everything that ... influences the allocation of mental resources of everyon... That's a lot of power to put in the hands of a company t ... But in the https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1029223 http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/03/utilities 2013-03-24T08:54:52Z Dr. Parkinson’s start-up isn’t a new app or social n... founder of Sherpaa, a Web site that operates like a virt... office, examining patients by e-mail and text message. “We’re using the Internet to reinvent health care,†... Have a mysterious https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1029097 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/fashion/jay-parkinson-the-doctor-is-in-well-logged-in.html?src=recg 2013-03-23T15:24:53Z The world around us is increasingly governed by these al... annoyingly dumb and some freakishly intelligent. Because... generally mimic decisions that used to be made directly ... tendency to humanise the results and can easily be horri... Douglass Ru https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1019540 http://iam.peteashton.com/keep-calm-rape-tshirt-amazon/ 2013-03-03T08:58:46Z he online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why... less than happy? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1007211 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ed6a985c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a.html#slide0 2013-02-11T23:38:59Z The Government should consider stopping sharing intellig... the US and end the use of Cloud computing due to concern... personal information about British citizens can be spied... The warning comes during a Whitehall drive for governmen ... US law allo https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006211 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/mps-call-for-government-to-consider-ending-use-of-cloud-amid-concerns-that-us-authorities-can-access-information-8473693.html 2013-02-09T13:53:44Z DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. 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"People who say 'we don't need libraries because it's al ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=364404 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9421996.stm 2011-03-17T06:13:46Z At the beginning of the last century, the power of natio... measured in battleships and coal. In this century it's as likely to be graduates. There has been an unprecedented global surge in the numb ... Among the developed OECD countries, graduation rate https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=344901 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12597811 2011-03-02T09:14:52Z The First Case in History The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ... Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=329137 http://www.copyrightprotection.com/history.htm 2011-02-16T10:47:39Z Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules (AP) – 2 days ago COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tony Brown didn't set out to over ... 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Martin Knight: I think it’s because we underfund early ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=308600 http://www.praxisunico.org.uk/news/sector-detail.asp?ItemID=627 2011-01-17T18:57:15Z Between 75% and 80% of television viewing will remain in... television viewing environment for the next 10 years in ... the US, and the 30 second spot will continue to dominate... advertising. That is the view of Simon Thomas, Strategic... However, wh https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=269771 http://www.v-net.tv/newsdisplay.aspx?id=602&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 2010-12-11T00:41:27Z In the melee of the last days of the Labour government, ... Think of George Orwell and W H Auden, of Laurence Olivie ... But the BBC can't make them available to us, as it would ... 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I’m not sa ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=205332 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-insuffiency-of-the-open-data-approach/2010/09/1412 2010-09-17T14:48:30Z Broadband is the most modern of communication means, whi... date back to Roman times. But on Thursday, a race between the two highlighted the ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=205240 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11325452 2010-09-17T11:10:17Z Samasource empowers over 850 marginalized people, from r... women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing work o... the Internet. In parallel, we enable socially responsibl... businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs in the US to c... economic de https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=204732 http://www.samasource.org/about/ 2010-09-16T15:13:37Z This all happened a couple of years ago – just before ... search entirely and handed that part of its business ove... Also around that time, Bill Gates uttered one of the sma... has ever said: “The future of search is verbs.” But ... To me, the https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=204555 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/dyson23/English 2010-09-16T09:07:18Z Do they ever make sense? I’m not saying that it’s impossible to be successful ... Obviously free plans have worked well for companies like ... We need to stop blindly copying them and start thinking ... ... t skip that free plan and focus on making m https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=188837 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/08/18/why-free-plans-dont-work/ 2010-08-18T18:16:10Z The process of adding RDFa to Best Buy's webpages began ... the company began to look for ways to get more visibilit... To solve this dilemma, Best Buy gave each store its own ... Best Buy employees entered information into the blogs ev ... Best Buy is https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=176890 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_best_buy_is_using_the_semantic_web.php 2010-07-02T17:20:10Z GoodRelations - The Web Ontology for E-Commerce GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=176888 http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ 2010-07-02T17:19:12Z Alcatel-Lucent has flipped the traditional API revenue m... By creating a commercially packaged bundle of APIs, deve ... Don't max out your credit cards with API calls. Instead, ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=175506 http://openapiservice.com/content/api-bundles 2010-06-29T18:34:20Z The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time. The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=173160 http://data.gov.uk/blog/new-public-sector-transparency-board-and-public-data-transparency-principles 2010-06-28T18:45:49Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=168155 http://activitystrea.ms/ 2010-06-14T19:13:15Z The Institute for Web Science: Statement by Professor Si... Issued 17.30, Tuesday 25 May 2010 Yesterday, as part of its £6 billion spending cuts, the ... The following statement has been issued by Professor Sir ... ... p://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/ https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=163669 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/3223 2010-05-29T16:07:38Z In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks ... give out, estimates suggest. Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which t ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=160099 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10105978.stm 2010-05-14T11:38:50Z Commencing February 2009, this study is exploring what a... * Explore the past — examine prior studies and ana ... * Define possible future scenarios and assess their ... * Produce preferred visions for Europe of a Future I ... The project https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=159624 http://www.internetfutures.eu/?page_id=18 2010-05-12T10:06:48Z Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an ... Cory Doctorow at 10:06 PM April 8, 2010 From the you'd-have-to-laugh-or-you'd-have-to-shoot-your ... 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We’ve bee https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=140745 http://www.milkandmore.co.uk/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10046 2010-02-13T15:23:46Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=139510 http://www.slideshare.net/gumption/empowering-people-through-mobile-technologies-in-developing-regions 2010-02-07T12:37:40Z Scotland's most remote communities could soon gain acces... broadband, according to researchers working on an intern... program. The Tegola Project, run jointly by the University of Edi ... Professor Peter Buneman of the School of Informatics at ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=139002 http://www.journal-online.co.uk/article/5758-high-speed-internet-in-the-pipeline-for-rural-villages 2010-02-03T22:42:28Z Government is committed to making its public information... available as possible. The best way to make structured i... available online is to publish it as Linked Data. Linked... information easier to cut and combine in ways that are r... citizens. T https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=126676 http://coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=312 2009-11-22T10:53:32Z The Art of Swishing involves getting your friends togeth... clothes and party at the same time. Every lady must brin... (Large sacks of designer frocks are also gratefully rece ... "Save money, save the planet, have a party: swishing eff ... Lucy Shea, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=122375 http://swishing.org/ 2009-10-30T14:22:23Z The imperatives of the link economy At a Berkman center session last week about supporting i ... 1. All content must be transparent: open on the web with ... 2. The recipient of links is the party responsible for m ... ... networks to help the recipients https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=111399 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/28/the-imperatives-of-the-link-economy/ 2009-08-18T10:44:53Z ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) is a non-propri... permissions tool that puts content owners in control of ... content in a way that is conducive to developing new onl... models, putting new, high-quality content on the net and... benefits of https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=111398 http://www.the-acap.org/ 2009-08-18T10:44:31Z The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the Intern... fighting the link and the link is the basis of the Inter... Perez-Pena's New York Times story today: Tom Curley, The A.P.'s president and chief executive ... Them's fightin' words: quoting https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=111397 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-jarvis/how-and-why-to-replace-th_b_244640.html 2009-08-18T10:44:12Z People who go to aggregator sites don’t really click t... original story. But he misses the profound and game-chan... that fact: They don’t want to read the original story.... changed on the Internet, where information comes faster ... Oh, yes, an https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=111396 http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/237/mark-cuban-is-a-big-fat-idiotmdash3bnews-will-stay-free.html 2009-08-18T10:43:51Z Earlier today we wrote about the AP's plans to DRM the n... what a backwards plan it was. The story is getting lots ... with many pointing to a NY Times report, where the AP's ... "If someone can build multibillion-dollar businesses ... First of al https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=111394 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090724/1533155652.shtml 2009-08-18T10:42:31Z Arnon Mishkin wrote a post last Thursday on paidContent ... Arnon Mishkin: The vast majority of the value gets captured by aggr ... Jeff Jarvis: ... ates come down to opposing sides exchanging half-truths. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=111392 http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/20798 2009-08-18T10:40:41Z People who “get the web” will explain to you that th... web have everything to do with linking and getting linke... links one can get, the better off one is. Few disagree w... So when the AP and the newspaper owners demanded that th ... Well, the d https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=111391 http://paidcontent.org/article/419-the-fallacy-of-the-link-economy/ 2009-08-18T10:40:32Z When the budget for rebuilding Birmingham City Council's... from £580,000 to £2.8m, did nobody say 'let's try free... instead'? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=110516 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/07/local-government-open-source-birmingham-website-costs 2009-08-11T12:24:52Z New ID cards are supposed to be 'unforgeable' - but it t... minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=109804 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204641/New-ID-cards-supposed-unforgeable--took-expert-12-minutes-clone-programme-false-data.html 2009-08-06T12:50:39Z If you see a particularly colourful newspaper lying on t... 'great' and the 'good' over the next few months it could... 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