Month: March 2006
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An autistic evening…
Just back with Em from a very enjoyable talk given by Simon Baron-Cohen on Gifted Scientists and Autism – Is there a connection? as part of the Cambridge Science Festival He quickly dismissed the work done on finding autistic traits from the biographies of Newton and Einstein as been unfair, unreliable and unclear even though…
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Logging visitors to this blog….
Just started to use My Blog Log to gather statistics on folks using this blog. Really very interesting the search terms people are using to find it. such as “revolution health” “weekends in krakov” Heres a screenshot taken from it:-
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Technology v DRM
Excellent quote::HorsePigCow:: life uncommon: SXSW Highlights: “‘Technology is about enabling people. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is about disabling people. DRM is the opposite of what technology should do.’ Ian Clarke (Freenet), Commons-Based Business Models” I’m sure Cory Doctorow would agree Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown…
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Technology v DRM
Excellent quote::HorsePigCow:: life uncommon: SXSW Highlights: “‘Technology is about enabling people. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is about disabling people. DRM is the opposite of what technology should do.’ Ian Clarke (Freenet), Commons-Based Business Models” I’m sure Cory Doctorow would agree
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Self rating in a minority
On Friday I attended the Technology and Gender Inequalities conference at CRASSH here in Cambridge the event was part of the Social Science Week. I was prompted to go by Shelleys article on Burningbird about the Our Social World Conference I held last year and her comments about the lack of women attending. Another reason…
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My space or Over there space
A VC (Who I note has a similar personality profile to me) has an interesting article about Myspace. I find it interesting that most parents I speak to here in the UK are not even aware of Myspace‘s existence, even though Murdoch bought it for $580m in July 2005, and that most of their kids…
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Self rating in a minority
On Friday I attended the Technology and Gender Inequalities conference at CRASSH here in Cambridge the event was part of the Social Science Week. I was prompted to go by Shelleys article on Burningbird about the Our Social World Conference I held last year and her comments about the lack of women attending. Another reason…
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My space or Over there space
A VC (Who I note has a similar personality profile to me) has an interesting article about Myspace. I find it interesting that most parents I speak to here in the UK are not even aware of Myspace’s existence, even though Murdoch bought it for $580m in July 2005, and that most of their kids…
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The Intention economy at work?
Is this is an example of Doc Searls intention economy at work? Rogier Mulder’s Apple magSafe power connector burnt up so he posted pictures onto Flickr. Apple apparently saw the pictures ,asked for them to be taken down. But here is the good bit “Apple support responded very well (thanks Klaas) and fast. Before Icalled…
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The Intention economy at work?
Is this is an example of Doc Searls intention economy at work? Rogier Mulder’s Apple magSafe power connector burnt up so he posted pictures onto Flickr. Apple apparently saw the pictures ,asked for them to be taken down. But here is the good bit “Apple support responded very well (thanks Klaas) and fast. Before Icalled…