Let’s start with a brilliant resource for all Brit bloggers: localmouth, a way to find local blogs wherever you are in the UK. Hover somewhere near Oxford and you might find mine. A wonderful example of the way intelligent networked pluralism helps mobilise human creativity without busybody official statist help. […]
Is hosted by Suz Blog. With the word’s naffest ever Easter Bunny. And with the Sweet Aroma of Justice. Plus an odd posting by Philobiblon on innovation leading to (ostensibly) worse outcomes.
My musing on the subject of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as they have affected Manchester United prompted reader Ron (emphasis added): When teams at the top play each other, or teams at the bottom, they are referred to as ’six pointers’. You have the opportunity to claim […]
My site’s ratings for March soared to new heights with lots of interest from Malta. It is not easy to follow the fusillades of insults between rival tendencies there. According to Daphne Caruana Galizia, her political opponents (primarily Malta Labour supporters) have set up a website to attack her as […]
Remember the world scoop/poop of Sarajevo newspaper Dnevi Avaz, featuring what was said to be fascimile copy of a letter from Prime Minister John Major to FCO Minister of State Douglas Hogg, back in May 1993? In the so-called letter Prime Minister Major says a number of nasty things about […]
A bracing visionary view at Edge of how the Internet is transforming everything, by David Gelernter. Interesting intro: Take a look at the photos from the recent Edge annual dinner and you will find the people who are re-writing global culture, and also changing your business, and, your head. What […]
Exhibit One: Robert Baer, former CIA officer, looks at the the evolving world of organised assassination. Exhibit Two: Professor Kenneth Anderson praises President Obama’s efficient use of Predator strikes in and around Pakistan: … of all the ways it has undertaken to strike directly against terrorists, this administration owns the […]
My earlier piece on Hamas and the ‘cloned’ passports has been picked up by Spy Blog, who watches like a hawk everything to do with UK government surveillance and other technologies. He adds some useful expert points on just how difficult it is to come up with any foolproof scheme […]
Families are tricky. They stretch to outer limits our private sense of responsibility. You are Diligent. You work hard and honestly, you treat everyone fairly, you are generous towards friends and family, but you dislike being exploited or ‘expected’ to help others who don’t do all they can to help themselves. […]
Luckily the Technology Liberation Front give us the answer. Pragmatic optimism.
