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  • Tracking the G20 buzz

    They can’t match the volume nor quality of the thousands of photos taken by professional photographers with cool cameras, nor those from many amateurs, but these pics I snapped with my iPhone from the BBC live TV coverage at just…

  • Is there a point in changing the clocks?

    Unless you live in a country where the clocks never change (there are a lot of places like that as indicated by the countries and territories in red and the orange in Wikipedia’s world daylight saving time map above), you’ll…

  • Disrupting mobile communications in the EU

    With a title like this on the Europa website, there’s little doubting where Viviane Reding, the European Union’s Commissioner for Information Society and Media, stands on the thorny topic of forcing mobile operators to reduce the costs for mobile phone…

  • The Age of Stupid

    I’d not heard about The Age of Stupid before seeing a story in the Financial Times about it that showed up in my RSS reader this morning. The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in…

  • Really fast Twitter growth

    The reasons why people use Twitter are probably as varied as the number of people on the service, some 7 million in total. There’s a rather amusing video parody of Twitter posted by Current TV which pokes fun at people…