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Year: 2008

  • Some transparency at least

    The Cabinet Office official who left top-secret documents on a train in June is to be charged under the Official Secrets Act, the BBC reports. […] BBC defence correspondent Frank Gardner said the move would have come as a surprise…

  • The evolution of blogging

    During the past week, Technorati has published a series of articles on the state of the blogosphere in 2008, the first such report in nearly 18 months. Like previous reports from Technorati, this latest one goes beyond just the raw…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #383: September 25, 2008

    Content summary: Enter the FIR listener contest and win free conference tickets; Dan York reports on tech tools Dropbox, IBM Bluehouse, and more; fancy a social media job at Ford’s world headquarters?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; help Max…

  • When the web doesn’t work, use the phone

    A tweet from 3mobilebuzz this morning alerted me to some really sweet deals from mobile operator 3 regarding mobile broadband. Half-price offers! The one that interests me is the 18-month contract for 3’s USB E160G modem dongle with 5 gigs…

  • Gordon Brown’s first step

    I watched a good 40 minutes of Prime Minster Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, broadcast live on BBC News. If you read the speech, I think you’ll agree that it’s pretty good as far…