Category: thoughts
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First Four Follow Fridays #ff
Follow Friday has been around on Twitter since the early days but I have never really bothered – in fact I can’t remember ever taking part (but there is every chance I did once or twice in the early days I guess.) That said I have been realising again recently how much I lean on…
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Betagov blues..
While in many (most) ways the great work going on as a part of Betagov and the wider Government Digital Service is inspiring it is also considerably adds to my frustrations at the moment. I am wondering whether I need to turn something of a ‘blind eye’ to the posts etc coming out of the…
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Leaving fingerprints on the web
While I was researching a cookie-free diet for my websites I came across the idea of ‘browser fingerprinting’ which seemed have been a bit of a story last summer but one that completely passed me by. According to the EFF disabling cookies only actually protects your privacy so far and that; “When you visit a…
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The Coming of the Cookie Monster
OK in all liklihood this post won’t make a lick of sense. That is not entirely my fault as I’m trying to make sense of something that seems more than a little crazy. Tomorrow (May 26th 2011) the revised Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations come into force in the United Kingdom, bringing us into line…
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The @nytimes ‘human voice’ experiment
The New York Times has embarked on something of an ‘experiment’ this week. They have uncoupled their RSS feeds from their Twitter account so no more automated posting and instead have replaced it with two ‘social media editors’ selecting and writing the tweets and also contributing to the conversation in the stream. This article gives…
