Month: February 2005

Will politics ever get e-serious?

Good article by Bill Thompson on the BBC Technology News Site.

The political classes will be surprised indeed if the next General Election doesn’t take place on 5 May.

In fact Tony Blair might even lose votes if he disappoints us and goes for another date.

Apart from the date, the other thing that is clear to all observers is that the internet will play a key part in the campaign, with exhortatory e-mails, party websites and candidate weblogs all being wheeled out to persuade voters of the merits of one party over another.

Boris posts again

I can’t tell you how pleased I am to have said something bordering on the truly reactionary.

Is Boris trying to get back in Michael Howard’s good books?

Still, a lengthy and serious post from Boris which shows that he is at least trying to use his blog constructively!

Slow weekend for The Closed Circle

In that it stopped. Sorry. Was playing with my new toy:

my new phone

It’s pretty good. It can send emails, which is great, and means I can post to this blog on the move. Using Flickr I can even post pictures straight onto here which I take with the camera! Wonders will never cease.

Had stacks of feeds to get through this morning. Plenty of stuff been posted on the link blog.

Lawrence Lessig on Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig on Creative Commons:

Creative Commons offers free copyright licenses to artists and creators. The purpose of the license is to enable the artist or creator to mark his or her copyrighted work with the freedom he or she intends the work to carry. Those “freedoms” are the exclusive rights that copyright grants the copyright holder which the law permits the copyright holder to waive. The design of the system is to be automatic. No contract, or meeting of the minds, is intended. It is simply a license that says “if you use my copyrighted work in ways that would otherwise infringe my exclusive rights, I won’t sue you if you have abided by this license.” (The law makes everything ugly, but anyway, that’s what it does.)

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