Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

I wish I could end this with a heroic call-to-action. ‮.. Do YOU want to fix our broken government?? Click here to... But I can’t. My fellowship year clarified more problem... Instead, I’ll offer a question: How can we build empat...
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The First Case in History
The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ...
Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ...

The NHS’ controversial project to computerise all pati... cost billions of pounds without delivering any benefits,... damning report.
It warns the project is running years behind schedule an ...

New ID cards are supposed to be 'unforgeable' - but it t... minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data

Most of us don't even realise it, but the home pages for... heavyweights such as Amazon, Facebook and YouTube have c... recognition since they launched.
Likewise, most of us don't remember that Google once had ...
With their plain colour schemes and emp

Designed to connect people with something to deliver…⮮. can deliver it!
Example 1 – A mum is on her way to drop her kids off t ...
Example 2 – A Truckie has an empty backload from Sydne ...

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

Docracy is a social repository of legal documents. Our m... useful legal documents freely available to the public. W... them easier to find, customize and sign. No more crappy ... paywall that you download hoping everything will be alright.
Instead: re

A top German court has ruled that people can sue their I... for damages if connection is lost. The court has ruled t... Internet represents a basic need in modern society.

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

So maybe you saw my Twitter going nuts tonight. Or you s... Twitter account blow up. Or you saw this in AllThingsD. ... DailyDot. Although embarrassing, Twitter was the least o... someone gained entry to my iCloud account, used it to re... devices, an

Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as ... society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raisin... conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the s... minerals is fueling in the DR Congo. The campaign and re... complex sup

Visualizing the "super entity." Courtesy: New Scientist
Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute o ...
They discovered that global corporate control has a dist ...

he online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why... less than happy?

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass.
And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ...
But this could change if a new 4G m

The Internet Bus Project is an attempt to educate people... Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives... Internet experience to them through a customised Interne... which will travel to several towns and cities across India.

Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules
(AP) – 2 days ago
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tony Brown didn't set out to over ...
The University of Missouri student came up with an idea ...
But the invention also raised a perplexing question when ...

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

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 ...
All this was set out in the Digital Britain reports that ...
... ive cos

Two months ago I wrote a blog on "media gurus" who charg... promoting "free" as a business model. The blog drew some... responses, with Guardian contributor Cory Doctorow posti... accusing me of not understanding how giving work away fo... promotional

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

A smart city is an open city. It runs on data, so public... demonstrate a presumption of openness, making data freel... in an accessible format. Data connectivity needs to be s... a privilege and as ubiquitous as water from the tap.

When the budget for rebuilding Birmingham City Council's... from £580,000 to £2.8m, did nobody say 'let's try free... instead'?

British website owners could face extradition to the US ... even if their operation has no connection to America and... which is most probably legal in the UK, the official lea...
The US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE ...
As long as

How one word change lets Amazon pays less tax on its UK ...
The word 'fulfilment' introduced in 2006 marked new role ...

Amazon is forcing British publishers to cover the cost o... on ebook sales – even though the true VAT cost to the ... only a fraction of that amount under its generous Luxemb... regime.
The firm is able to wield such power over publishers bec ...

The Twitter users "voluntarily" turned over the internet... when they signed up for an account and relinquished an e...
"Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP inf ...
The fight comes amid widening concerns about online priv ...
"I want eve

GoodRelations - The Web Ontology for E-Commerce
GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, ...