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Category: Society

  • A different kind of lifestream

    A hot topic this week, in the online PR community at least, has been the concept of lifestreams. This is about aggregating everything about you – blog posts, photos, streams of thought al la Twitter, content in myriad other places online –…

  • Gun crime: Society’s big problem

    Reuters reports some interesting figures from the Small Arms Survey 2007 on the availability of guns around the world. The UK doesn’t get a mention anywhere in Reuters’ report. Well, you wouldn’t expect it too, really, would you? The UK…

  • Cleaning house time for television

    If you think much of British television swims in a swamp of distrust, as I think it does, you ought to read the text of the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture delivered by Jeremy Paxman on Friday night at the Edinburgh…

  • Understanding OpenID is not easy

    Last year, I signed up to get an OpenID. I didn’t fully understand what it could do but I did believe that it would become more important, not to mention useful, to have a means by which you could identify…

  • The case for DRM

    A disturbing but far from surprising trend reported by Reuters: Children in Europe are aware of the risks of illegal downloading, but often rationalize their act by saying that everyone — including their parents — is doing it, according to…