Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Tom Scott’s vision of the future
October 29th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Last week, I attended the seventh annual ‘Parliament And The Internet’ conference which was addressed by two Government ministers: Chloe Smith from the Cabinet Office talking about cyber security and Ed Vaizey of DCMS talking about communications policy. By far the liveliest talk, however, came from a young futurist called Tom Scott who presented a […]
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My visit to London’s East End
October 18th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
I used to travel a lot through the East End of London because I lived out in Leyton and then Leytonstone for a decade and my son was actually born in the London Hospital at Whitechapel. But, since I moved to north-west London almost three decades ago, I don’t visit the East End that much. […]
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Online Centres Foundation Annual Review
October 8th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Since the beginning of the year, I have been an non-executive director of the Online Centres Foundation and Chair of the Board’s Remuneration Committee. The OCF is a co-operative that does great work getting people online for the first time. The terrific staff work with some 3,800 local centres helping those who have no or […]
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Word of the day: skeuomorphism
October 7th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
This is the use of a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original. I know, you’re no wiser. An example is when note-taking features on computers or apps use decorative elements that remind us of paper-based applications. You’ll find a fuller discussion of the use of […]
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Web site visits back to 8,000 a day
September 25th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Visits to my web site always fall in the summer months and this was especially so this year with most of my visitors being located in Britain and the country hosting the Olympic Games. But this week visits returned to over 8,000 a day. Almost half of those are to this blog which is overwhelmingly […]
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64 insights into the Internet and related phenomenon
September 23rd, 2012 by Roger Darlington
I’ve just finished reading a book with the catchy title “64 Things You Need To Know Now For Then” which is mainly about developments in the online world. You can read my review here.
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Should there be ‘a right to be forgotten’?
August 3rd, 2012 by Roger Darlington
At the beginning of the year, European Commissioner Viviane Reding proposed that, as part of the review of European Union privacy laws, there should be a new right to be forgotten [more information here]. The notion has proved controversial with the Harvard Law Review calling it “the biggest threat to free speech on the Internet […]
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Whatever happened to the cashless society?
June 19th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
“When I first became involved in the communications industry in the late 1970s, I was convinced that the then new microelectronics revolution would soon eliminate a lot of the need for cash. At that time, it looked as if some kind of electronic card would be the approach. In the 1980s, there was a trial […]
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How open is your Internet?
April 16th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
All this week, the “Guardian” newspaper is running a special feature on Internet freedom. As part of the project, the paper has produced an interactive world map with an assessment of how free the Net is in different countries. Check out your situation here.
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A review of “Consent Of The Networked”
April 9th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
American writer Rachel MacKinnon has produced an excellent book on “the worldwide struggle for Internet freedom” entitled “Consent Of The Networked” You can read my review here.
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