Archive for July, 2010
Mowing the Cloud
I had a good chat with JP yesterday, and one aspect of that chat related to cloud computing. This got us talking about the disconnect between goods and services. Goods have become very cheap (relative to services), and I have a couple of favourite examples. The first is bicycles. A decent kids bike has been [...]
Filed under: cloud | 4 Comments
Tags: cloud, economics, goods, services
Digital 9/11
This post is probably going to get me into trouble, but this stuff needs saying. There’s been a sudden outburst of sanity today about this topic, so I feel obliged to throw in my 2¢. A few weeks back I heard somebody say that we hadn’t yet seen a ‘digital 9/11’. I think what they [...]
Filed under: security | 2 Comments
Tags: 9/11, cyber, intelligence, movie plot, response, security, terrorist
Tim Bray has a post up about numbers, and this began as a comment but grew a little too long. I once described telephone numbers as ‘the original digital identity‘. The trouble is that for way too long they were associated to land lines (and hence geographic locations) and then mobiles came along and tied [...]
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Tags: ata, identity, numbers, persona, ribbit, sip, skype, telephone, voip
Pioneer One
A little while ago I wrote about how a TV series could be released on bittorrent and paid for by fans. Well, somebody’s done it – check out Pioneer One. I read about this last week on TechDirt, but it took me a few days to get around to downloading and watching it. My impression [...]
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Tags: bittorrent, fan funding, p2p, pioneer one, tv
I watched this film last week, but it’s taken me a while to find the time for a quick review. I guess I must like Michael Moore‘s films, as I’ve watched most of them, though I know from experience to expect a certain political perspective that I might not entirely agree with. I think he [...]
Filed under: film, review | 3 Comments
Tags: banking, capitalism, cdo, economics, engineering, film, Michael Moore, review, science, taxi driver
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