Month: June 2006

Posted without comment, although it fits very well with the things Dave and I have been writing for the past month or so about how your data can be misused if you don’t have control of your system: Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites.

The heat is almost stifling here in Oxford; all the windows are open and sun is streaming in through my window. I hope you’re all having similar weather, although I also hope your offices have better ventilation than mine. Cory Doctorow Visits a Radio Shack is very funny and pretty much sums up my feelings […]

… Inter-opra-bil-i-tee First comes love Then comes marriage And then comes the Elgg Moodle integration block, courtesy of Catalyst. Thanks to Penny, Martin and the team for their hard work on this awesome functionality. To clarify: the Elgg side of the integration comes out of the box with Elgg 0.6, but Moodle requires this integration […]

You may have read about ‘net neutrality’ in the papers recently, or maybe seen it on TV. At first glance it seems like a simple business issue: telecommunications providers, who own the cables and data links that form the Internet backbone, want to be able to prioritise data transmissions in exchange for money. For example, […]