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24 April, 2001

FT.com UK Gov’t rules out 3G handout - And a good thing too. Regrettable as it is that the telcos didn’t get their sums right I don’t see why money that could go to hospitals or schools should go instead to bailing them out of trouble!

22 April, 2001

“So Clippy [Microsoft's soon-to-be-obsolete interrupting paperclip] shows up at the Pearly Gates. Does he wait in line like everybody else? No. He goes and looks over St. Peter’s shoulder for a few seconds, then says something like “It looks like you’re trying to tabulate this person’s good and bad deeds …” - Thomas G. Digby

20 April, 2001

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Three articles on how libraries microfilm newspapers (incompletely) then throw them away (unneccessarily).
Two are reviews of a book by Nicholson Baker on the subject:
New York Times
New York Review of Books

A NYT reporter also did some research of her own in an accompanying piece.

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19 April, 2001

Douglas Rushkoff I don’t normally have a lot of time for him and he does over-state his case rather, but this time he really has a point. Sites aimed at WAP users are simple text and fast to load and these are virtues that those sites’ owners would do well to remember.

BBC News - Workers lose three hours to net something of a sensationalist study - this is to say they spend more than three hours a week surfing the net, almost half of them admiting to some personal use. But if it is done in break time (and considering that most of them will be putting in unpaid overtime) where is the harm?

The piece notes, “UK employers were five times more likely to reprimand staff for inappropriate use of the internet than in many other European countries.” Ouch!

BBC News - Drugs firms drop Aids case The big pharmaceutical companies have caved in and decided not to prevent South Africa from importing inexpensive drugs to alleviate AIDS…

18 April, 2001

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16 April, 2001

BBC News - Free digital access for chosen areas The UK government is about to try to see what happens when the era of ubiquitous digital TV access arrives.

15 April, 2001

Break on through to the other side - This simple script will show you on a map exactly where you would end up if you drilled straight down through the earth and came out the other side. Amusing (if useless).

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Media (Daily)
BBC News Online bookforum
(Weekly)
lifehacker - but I only look at their top these days. The Economist (I listen to the audio edition)
Arts & Letters Daily
The New Yorker & its cartoons

(Monthly or more infrequently)
Wired magazine
Prospect magazine (if you think The Economist is dumbed down)
Maisonneuve magazine
The Walrus
First Monday - an Internet-only peer reviewed journal of Internet studies
Gnovis - peer-reviewed journal of Communication, Culture and Technology
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
...and various other journals you can't access for free.

Virtual Communities I belong to
The Well
Brainstorms from Howard Rheingold
CIX the UK's "Well" for over 15 years
I'm also on Facebook

Comics
Doonesbury
Dilbert

Multimedia
US Public Radio
Day to Day NPR daily topical feature show inc. Slate content
BBC Radio 4 - archived for a week after broadcast
BBC Radio Drama original drama and serialised books
BBC7 radio dramas and comedy from BBC archives
The News Quiz

BBC World Service
Analysis
Assignment
Off the Shelf (serialised books)
Other non-podcast multimedia
The Daily Show biting American political satire.
Odd Todd periodically updated amusing Flash cartoons
Tales of Mere Existence excellent Quicktime animated short vignettes.
Guardian - monthly Cybercinema roundup
OneWord Radio audiobooks and author interviews

Podcasts

News/Current Affairs/Factual Thinking Allowed weekly interviews with academics
This American Life superb storytelling
LSE public lectures The University Channel guest lectures at major US universities
The Guardian's Podcasts
Slate's podcasts
From Our Own Correspondent

Fiction/drama
Escape Pod - SF short stories
Librivox - volunteer readers read classic fiction.
Craphound - Cory Doctorow reads his works
NPR book reviews

Digital Planet tech radio programme with emphasis on the developing world (now being podcast)
(also see the Go Digital special Digital Destinations) and Bill Thompson's thoughts about recent Digital Planets
IT Conversations: Blogging (broadcasts from conferences - other topics available)
NPR has a weekly tech roundup

Useful stuff
Various handy free/cheap Mac apps (updated regularly)
Online virus scanner
Free anti-virus software
Dave's Quick Search Toolbar Google taskbar on steroids
Workrave Free RSI prevention software
Powermarks Superb Windows bookmark manager ($25)
Netvouz This may be the most full-featured web bookmark manager around.
Endnote ($239 ) Great software for managing academic citations (or try one of these)
snipurl lets you share long urls easily
Mailwasher Lets you choose between several blacklists and other filtering tools to get rid of spam from multiple POP3 mailboxes - and it is free!
SpamMotel - Free disposable email addresses that let you see who is misusing the one you gave them
DigiGuide - a fast, powerful TV guide for your PC, covering the UK, US or Ireland
TotalRecorder - a powerful, inexpensive way to record streaming audio into MP3 files to take away.
QuestionPro survey software Lots of features and free for academic use.

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