hopefully they’ll get started on repealing that ridiculous Digital Economy Bill.
Author: loughlin
Facebook perspective
Here are a few sensible pieces on the whole Facebook privacy brouhaha.
- Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) [Danah Boyd]
- Zuckerberg, we have a problem [Lisa Barone]
- If Mark Zuckerberg invented the Web [David Weinberger]
The thing is, Facebook needs to generate some revenue from its user’s data soon. It seems that advertisers may be reconsidering their spend on Facebook, since by all accounts the conversion rates are quite poor. Walled gardens don’t last indefinitely.
Nobody saw this coming
http://www.youtube.com/v/vc8ykHoBXmQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&
via thestory.ie
Why do I not believe him?
He already postures as if he has Plausible Ignorance on his side. “very well capitalised”. He says that the Irish banking system doesn’t have exposure to subprime “US sector”. Da fundamentals are strong, no explanation of what these fundamentals might be. “Irish economy is greatly diversified”, yet again, say wha?
The “banking system has been a big beneficiary of that growth”. Repugnant and revealing.
London, innit?
The Realm of The Hackers
Listen In: Berlin
So You Need A Typeface
This is great. All you need to know. Or else just use Helvetica in every situation of course.
Dear lord
Romulan child, obviously
Sun is shining
I was clearing out an old hard-drive and came across this mix that I did a few years back. Starts slow, builds up and then goes all deep soul at the end. Marvel at my lack of turntablist skills!
Obviously this comes with the usual caveat that if any of the copyright holders of any of these songs contact me and request it, I will take the whole shebang down immediately.