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Dominic Mohan + more news
Dominic Mohan Dominic Mohan severs staff ties with Rupert Murdoch | guardian.co.uk – it’s weird I forever think of Dominic Mohan and the the Bizarre column. The Bizarre show business column gave Dominic Mohan is public profile in the UK. Dominic Mohan had moved to The Sun from the News of The World. When Dominic…
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Outmoded web crypto +more
Outmoded web crypto Facebook’s outmoded Web crypto opens door to NSA spying | Politics and Law – CNET News – not terribly surprised at this. Facebook is an internet company whose behaviour to outsiders seems to come with streak of sociopathy running through its culture and strategy. Outmoded web crypto would be desirable for a…
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Hard innovation + more things
Hard innovation Fred Wilson: Venture capital as we know it will cease to exist | PandoDaily – not as many at least. I can’t see hard innovation being financed by Kickstarter, but then venture capital aren’t financing much hard innovation either. Economics UK inflation: five graphs that show why prices are rising – Telegraph –…
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Nothing to hide + more news
Nothing to hide Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | Wired.com – both Wired and danah boyd have done great articles about the nothing to hide argument against privacy. The problem with nothing to hide as a framework flips the relationship between governments and their people. People…
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The PRISM post
It took a bit longer to develop this post than normal, I had a number of data points and ideas kicking around my head regarding PRISM when the news came out. I don’t have a definite conclusion from them and they seem to raise as many questions as answers about our wider relationship with technology.…
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Sainsbury Bank + more news
Sainsbury Bank Eye-catching recruits and full bank buyout fast-tracks grocer’s push for supremacy – The Independent – interesting how Sainsbury Bank is going for it whilst the UK banking sector licks its wounds. Don’t forget that MBNA entered and disrupted the UK credit card market at the tail-end of the recession in the mid-1990s whilst…
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This is your brain on e-books
This is your brain on e-books This Is Your Brain on E-Books | MIT Technology Review – This is your brain on e-books highlights how e-books are different. I had a similar experience to this is your brain on e-books that I called Kindle brain Consumer behaviour The broken record: vinyl, matter, memory and meaning…
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Mercedes Benz G63 + more
Mercedes Benz G63 AMG Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 « Gear Patrol – I can’t work out if the Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 is amazing or stupid. It is based on the G Wagen which is a proper off-road vehicle. The 6×6 platform used was developed for the military like Germany’s KSK special forces unit.…
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Siberian meteor burst + more
Siberian meteor burst I know that there have been 500 people with minor injuries, but the Siberian meteor burst felt like I was living in a Jerry Bruckheimer film. The best observation I saw about it was in Vice magazine’s email newsletter which asked why so many drivers in Russia had managed to film the…