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  The Housing Question – Travelling North & Shirts4Shelter

  09.05.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This is the week we say goodbye to London. Well, at least, the week we cease to call it home. We’re off to Birmingham, since the cost of being in London in no way reflects the benefits of still being here. Birmingham is home to many of our friends, it’s a cool city for music [...]

• news/current affairs, social media

  What Happens When ‘They’ Don’t Get Social Media? Why the Bullying Of Baskers Matters.

  11.18.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Wow, there really have been a whole load of social media shitstorms of late. First, there was the case of Paul Chambers, AKA the #twitterjoketrial, where one guy tweets a jokey, hyperbolic, frustrated tweet ostensibly to his friends that follow him, and has now ended up (after appeal even) with a £1000 fine and a [...]

• news/current affairs, social media

  The Internet Is Not The Enemy – Inspired by An Excellent Rant

  09.20.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Yesterday, the wonderful and talented Miranda Ward wrote this brilliant rant entitled ‘The Internet Is Not The Enemy‘. Which in turn inspired in me a comment so long it kinda deserves its own post. So here it is, but read her post first -o0o- Excellent Rantage. I feel afronted by the web-phobic ramblings for two [...]

• news/current affairs, Technology

  IBM Summit At Start – Sustainability, Collaboration, Copyright and Language.

  09.13.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  For the last three days I’ve been at the IBM Summit at Start – 9 days of seminars, hosted by Prince Charles, looking at Sustainability issues, particularly as they relate to business. There have been some amazing speakers, particularly James Jones the Bishop of Liverpool, Ellen McArthur, Larry Hirst, Stephen Howard… all offering an inspiring [...]

• art, deep stuff, music, news/current affairs

  Greenbelt: Actively Doing Nothing.

  08.29.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  August Bank Holiday Weekend IS Greenbelt. Sometimes it feels like the banks are closed in honour of it. For 19 of the last 21 last-weekend-in-Augusts I’ve spent my time in a field (til ‘99) or racecourse (the fest has been in Cheltenham for 11 years) engaged in four simple pleasures: soaking up great music encountering [...]

• music, news/current affairs

  CC-Style Music Licenses For Small Businesses?

  08.09.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Much has been made of this article in the New York Times about the work of the BMI in enforcing the law that any business in the US playing music (radio, CDs, spotify, live etc.) needs to pay a public performance license, the cost of which is based on the size of the business. There’s [...]

• music, news/current affairs

  Digital Economy Bill – My Relevant Posts In One Handy List

  04.07.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I had an email from an MP earlier today, asking for some background info on my position on the Digital Economy Bill. So I sent him this list of links (it’s far from complete, but the poor guy’s got a lot on, so 50-odd links weren’t going to help!): http://www.stevelawson.net/2010/01/quick-thoughts-on-obscurity/ http://www.stevelawson.net/2010/02/warners-mistakes/ http://www.stevelawson.net/2010/01/dear-rock-stars/ (particularly the bit [...]

• news/current affairs

  Another letter to my MP, Jim Down, about the 3rd Reading of the Digital Economy Bill

  04.06.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve just watched 6 hours of live debate from Parliament. I can’t remember the last time I watched 6 hours of anything. Some of it was riveting, some of it was appalling. Major respect to those MPs who had REALLY done their homework and stepped up to the task of debunking some of the nonsense [...]

• news/current affairs

  Email to my MP Jim Dowd about the Digital Economy Bill

  04.05.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  [I wrote to Jim before, but didn't post it here. Anyway, here's the follow up that I just sent him.] Hi Jim, just a quick note ahead of tomorrow’s debate to express again my fear that highly contentious and misunderstood elements of the Digital Economy Bill will get pushed through in the wash-up. I was [...]

• news/current affairs, social media, Technology

  Cloud Culture – The Obvious Obstacle?

  03.09.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The tendency for people to shift their computing life into ‘the cloud’ is rolling on at great pace. More and more people are trusting • their email to Gmail, • their photos to Flickr, • their back-up to Amazon or Dropbox, • their documents to Google Docs and are using collaborative platforms for sharing data, [...]

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