Last month I sang the praises of tinyurl.com – now I read of a challenger, snipurl (which also takes a long URL and makes it shorter, making it easier to remember and share). This site has all manner of features – you can give a url an easy-to-remember name as you shorten it, you can track how many times it has been accessed, you can even give a URL a password. And it is still as short and convenient as tinyurl was…

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The UK government has just launched a green paper (a policy discussion document) on the UK government’s commitment to e-democracy. According to VoxPolitics – an e-democracy campaign group – this was “the world’s first offical eDemocracy policy” (actually except for Finland’s). They say the initiative appears to be more about adding Internet elements to the existing process instead of changing the process in response to new possibilities. If this is so, then it is an opportunity missed.

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Janis Ian has written a lengthy but interesting defence of MP3 sharing (saying, amongst other things, it helps smaller artists get exposure) and attack on the music industry.

It’s true that the music industry does not seem interested in using the Internet effectively as a promotional tool or to cut out the cost of distribution. But it is also true that 1) it is hard for the industry to figure out how to “cut the cake” of earnings in this new business environment, so “official” music sharing software tends to be experimental and offer only fragmentary access. And unfortunately 2) a widespread and well-marketed move to paid-for music downloading even at low cost might not stand much chance of success if a parallel system of easy to use totally free music download software exists alongside it. Some say that this would not be a problem, but if I was a music executive I would not be much interested in betting my company on it!

(Thanks to Harald for the link)

The good news is that a company plans to offer a set top box by early next year that will bring consumers all 24 free to air digital TV channels in the UK for just £30. The bad news is that the company will be subsidising this box because it expects to get large sums from people gambling on sporting events. Just what the UK needs – more gambling…

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The story of Bangladesh’s poisoned wells is a long sad one, but it looks as if at last there may be a happy ending. Aid agencies found that Bangladeshis didn’t have easy access to clean drinking water, so they helped them to drill wells. Unfortunately, they later found that many of these wells were polluted by arsenic and slowly poisoned the people drinking from them. A variety of alternatives have been sought, but at last I read that a Bangladeshi professor has invented a simple, inexpensive (£3/$5) water filter that should extract arsenic, lead and iron from drinking water. The UN is organizing a campaign to put the filter in all of the wells in the country.

The New York Times points out not so much that the emperor has no clothes but that nobody seems to care any more whether he has clothes or not. Even in New York his films are not popular and people aren’t even coming to see his recent lawsuit with a former producer over his earnings.

I suppose I will always be a Woody Allen fan (cruelly one lawyer watching his trial says “His sense of humor is sort of frozen in the 70’s. He appeals to an older crowd.”)

Nonetheless I just discovered to my horror that I have missed his last seven films.

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As I read this fundamentalist Christian site I kept repeating to myself that it has to be some kind of parody – but I have yet to find the spot where they “rip off the masks” and reveal themselves as fraudsters… [later]… someone has pointed out parts of this site which do give the game away, but it’s an incredibly elaborate hoax – and apparently they were hosted for a time on a Christian ISP before they were discovered and booted off.

This site, seems to bring together every crackpot fundamentalist belief or practice you’ve ever heard of in one place. It also led me (I’m ashamed to say) to LustPleasure.com which, suffice it to say, is not what you think (and is perfectly safe to read at the office). Read on for a collection of rib-tickling quotes from Objective: Christian Ministries.
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You wouldn’t think a 5 minute animated film called “Headless” by Wojtek Wawszczyk would turn out to be, in the end, uplifting, but it is. It’s not a masterpiece but it’s quite touching…

At the end of June one of the longest running and best-supported online-only publications, Salon, told the SEC it might be on the brink of bankruptcy. Just a few days earlier it announced its Q4 2002 results. There’s been an ominous silence since…