Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category


What do I think about the Internet?

May 7th, 2013 by Roger Darlington

I gave this interview to Virgin Media.

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Happy 10th birthday to funkypancake

April 16th, 2013 by Roger Darlington

Dave Simpson is someone I got to know through my telecoms work when he lived in London and I recently touched base with him in his now home city of Auckland on the other side of the world. Dave never goes anywhere without a camera  and everyday he puts at least one photo on his […]

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TalkTalk still letting down its customers (2)

April 13th, 2013 by Roger Darlington

Twenty four hours after I did a posting on my e-mail problem with TalkTalk, I have heard nothing more from the company – but the issue is now resolved. This afternoon, Vee’s nephew Martin came round for tea with his wife and children. Although he works in IT, I didn’t want to bother him with […]

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TalkTalk still letting down its customers (1)

April 12th, 2013 by Roger Darlington

Four years ago, I lost my Internet service for 10 days and blogged about the horrendous experience here. This week I fell into another black hole in cyberspace … My Internet service provider is TalkTalk which, ever since Ofcom has published comparative complaints data, has been an outlier with the worst record of any ISP.  The latest data […]

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So the world didn’t end today which means that …

December 21st, 2012 by Roger Darlington

… views on YouTube of the Gangnam Style video by South Korean’s Psy could pass the one billion total, a new landmark in the evolution of the Internet:

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My decade of analysing developments on the Net

December 19th, 2012 by Roger Darlington

Ten years ago, I spoke to the then General Secretary of the then Connect, a trade union representing managers and professionals in the communications sector. I was critical of the then contributor to the union’s magazine on Internet issues and offered to do the job myself for free. My offer was accepted and, a decade […]

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What can’t you say on the Net?

December 4th, 2012 by Roger Darlington

I have now been contributing a roughly bimonthly column on Internet issues for the trade union Connect (now part of Prospect) for 10 years and I have just submitted my 75th piece. This one looks at how the law is beginning to bite on content carried on social media, a feature of the Net which […]

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What does Leveson say about the Internet?

November 30th, 2012 by Roger Darlington

As I explained in this posting, a particular interest of mine around the Leveson Report is the relationship between print media and online media. According to an item in the “Guardian” newspaper today, in the course of 2,000 pages, Leveson only devotes one page to the Internet. But this is not accurate. In a report of 1,987 pages, […]

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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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