Ben Werdmuller

Author: Ben Werdmuller

  • BarCamp Transparency

    One of the outcomes of BarCamp Oxford has been the organisation of a new BarCamp about transparency and ethics – a mix of social media, open government and cyber-activism. It’s in its early planning stages, but it’ll take place sometime over the summer here in Oxford. If you’re interested, I suggest you take a look…

  • Facebook has no need for deleting data

    Niall Kennedy has written an interesting post about Facebook’s data storage. They’ve written a proprietary filesystem to store photos in order to cut costs (up to now they’ve apparently been adding a $2 million NetApp storage system every week). It turns out they’ve decided they don’t need all the features you’d find in a traditional…

  • Notes from BarCamp Oxford

    I’m exhausted, but I wanted to get some thoughts down about today’s BarCamp in Oxford before I crash. This was proof that there is an intelligent, proactive geek community in England, and that, with the right stimulus, is capable of some incredible stuff. That said, I suspect that with a few exceptions those in attendance…

  • Keep whimsical

    I took some time out this afternoon to hang out in Oxford University Parks with Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which I’d been given for Christmas but hadn’t a chance to read yet. It’s a children’s book, and one whose 526 pages were whizzed through in a couple of hours, leaving a kind…