The File Sharing Report

The File Sharing Report asks whether file sharing (p2p) is a silent complaint about the business model of the software, movie and music industries. There’s some sense in that thought. It fits pretty well with my use of the technology (to save me ripping whole...

Folksonomy

Headshift looks approvingly at the growing world of social taxonomy generation. It’s definitely an interesting idea to help with the taxonomy vs chaos approach to creating information structures. However, without a good general search engine, surely the benefit...

Stiki Wiki

Stiki Wiki is proper in-page Wiki editing. Very nice indeed. When do we get to use it?

Nice letter in the Indy

Letter in the Independent from R S Clymo of East Sussex, in full:Sir:now that the coxless fours has ended satisfactorily, may we hope thatyou will arrange for a photograph of

Headshift on bad e-gov

Headshift pick up the growing meme that suggests that e-gov is a bad thing.Some memes we need to battle:£7.4bn – this number comes up all of the time, and contains a huge pile of assumptions, double counting and other errors. I don’t think there’s a...

Newham and MS

Jason Kitcat (great name) nails the main reasons for Newham’s decision to stick with MS over OSS. It was purely used as a negotiating tool. And nice one Newham. I hear that they got a 10-fold reduction in prices in some cases. Thanks to the GCat system in...

MPAA and junk research

More proof that the “copyright” industries are systematically misleading the press on the true impact of downloading movies and music.