Tuesday, 2 January, 2007

Did Wikipedia Really Ban Quatar?

Of course they didn’t. But for a little while, it looked like they might have done: Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address shared by the entire country. Wikipedia has blocked that IP address for…

Microformats

Stuff about microformats seem to be popping up all over the place at the moment. I first came across them in a post by Simon Dickson. The latest piece appeared on the Read/WriteWeb blog, which in turn introduced me to…

Monday, 1 January, 2007

links for 2007-01-01

When is a Blog not a Blog? (tags: google blogs techcrunch zoli erdos) Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » The nightmare after Christmas (tags: naughton drm microsoft vista) (tags: vista drm windows Microsoft security copyright software) Vista and DRM…

Vista and DRM

Quentin Stafford-Fraser (British web pioneer, who helped devise the first webcam) points to a frightening article by Peter Gutman about “Microsoft’s devotion to ‘content-protection’”. From Peter’s executive summary: Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order…

When is a Blog not a Blog?

Mike Arrington has opened up a storm of a debate over at TechCrunch, criticising the official Google blog for not allowing comments. He’s picking the issue up from a post by Zoli Erdos. He asks Is a blog really a…