Archives: 2008 January

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What is a minister for digital inclusion?

Jon Bright (London, OK): Yesterday, as I was hurrying out the door, I noticed an icWales article about Paul Murphy, and stuck up a brief blog about it. One line caught my eye slightly: he has been made minister for “Digital inclusion”, in the Ministry of Justice. What responsibilities will this new minister have? Google [...]

Wake up, Sit up

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I’m just back from a short trip to New York. I hope to write something about the Obama phenomenon. On the plane back with Tony Curzon Price we were reflecting on the hyper-sexualisation of girls in Britain and whether this should be a theme for OurKingdom (From ‘No Sex please we [...]

Podcast Notes: Congo, Loudness Wars and Throwing Yourself at Men

Right click this link to download to your computer or the blue arrow to listen. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here: This week we featured: Kenyan Blogger Daudi…

Local opposition to ID provides taste of decentralisation

Jon Bright (London, OK): Last week we covered the Welsh Assembly’s preemptive action on ID cards - guaranteeing that they will not be needed for access to devolved public services. I’ve since been in touch with Phil Booth of No2ID, who proved why research should be done before rather than after - this is, apparently, [...]

Wales says no to ID cards

Jon Bright (London, OK): OK has been slightly slow on to this, but it is worth recording here that last Wednesday the Welsh Assembly has, in the best traditions of the war on terror, launched a pre-emptive strike on ID cards by passing a motion guaranteeing that they will not have any impact on health [...]

The Evil Genius Disclaims All Responsibility

I came across this “audio disclaimer” from Dave Slusher at the Evil Genius Chronicles.

Dave was already making podcasts when I did my first few back around Christmas 2004, and I would call tim an “old fashioned live-and-let-live techie”.

Here he describes his attitude to his programme. Enjoy.

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