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Entries from October 2009

UK Govt – tackling piracy but in court on privacy!

October 31st, 2009 · Comments

Quite funny seeing which stories followed each other on PaidContent this morning – one story is following the response from UK ISPs to Lord Mandelson’s proposal to disconnect illegal filesharers – but that immediately followed that the EC has set a two month deadline to overhaul UK rules on digital privacy.Or the UK Govt will [...]

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Tags: Digital Audio

Bit late in sharing this brilliance – perfect for a Friday

October 30th, 2009 · Comments

I’ve seen this posted elsewhere (Hat tip to Rax and Dave) but it’s too good not to share on the off-chance you haven’t seen it.
It’s a lovely Flash app monitoring stats on social media compiled original in September by Gary Hayes, and is very good, entertaining, enlightening, and potentially scary if you’re nervous about what’s [...]

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Tags: Digital Culture

My most popular posts for October…

October 28th, 2009 · Comments

There’s just a few days left in the month, and a combination of work, family illnesses and Forza Motorsport 3
are limiting my blogging, so I thought I’d take a look at which posts were most popular this month:

Taking first spot was my theory that the Nokia N97 is the ultimate geek phone. Which obviously [...]

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Tags: Blogging

Valentino Rossi wins 9th world title – lessons for everyone

October 26th, 2009 · Comments

Valentino Rossi secured his ninth world championship title yesterday, cementing his position as the greatest motocycle racer of all time.  He’s claimed titles on five different types of motorcycle (125cc,250cc,500cc two strokes and 990 and 800cc four-strokes), lapped 0.5 seconds slower than Michael Schumacher in an F1 car and won events in a WRC rally [...]

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Tags: strategy