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Are Creation Spaces KM?s Future?

Posted on January 20, 2010
“most knowledge managers lost sight of the fact that the real value is in creating new knowledge, rather than simply “managing” existing knowledge.” Interesting article on the Harvard Business Review blog by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown (Deloitte) entitled “A Better Way to Manage Knowledge” They explore the idea of ‘creation spaces’ (and looked at [...

Please Sir, Google stole my content

Posted on January 18, 2010
I see in the Guardian that The German Federation of Newspaper Publishers (BDZV) and Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ) have become the latest groups to jump on the ‘Google are stealing our content’ bandwagon and have complained to the Federal Cartel Office about Google including news article “snippets” in its search results without payment [...

Federal court looks at if all ?sexting? is child porn

Posted on January 15, 2010
An interesting case is being heard by the US Federal Appeal Court today. Miller v. Skumanick looks the address the issue of whether child porn charges can be brought against teenagers who send nude or semi-nude photos to each other ( ’sexting’ )...

FCC facing defeat in ?fleeting expletives? case

Posted on January 15, 2010
The Lawyers for the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got a rough ride this week as they returned to the Second Circuit Federal appeals court to argue, once again that their rules to deal with obscenity and indecency in Television and in particular the use of ‘fleeting expletives’ should stand...

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TMT 2010

Posted on January 14, 2010
January is the time of year where you are meant to look ahead to what is in store during the coming year. So here’s my look back/ahead. IT/Internet Copyright ‘3 Strikes’ permeates across Europe In a move to combat internet piracy, several countries have adopted or proposed laws that would involved cutting off internet access to ‘alleged’ illegal p2p [...

Millions of peaches peaches for free

Posted on January 14, 2010
“Millions of peaches peaches for free / Millions of peaches peaches for me” (Presidents of the USA) I was please to see Peaches Geldof getting a result at the High Court The Daily Star had published a front page article with headline: ?PEACHES: SPEND NIGHT WITH ME FOR �5K?...

Lords start talking copyright in Digital Economy debates

Posted on January 13, 2010
The House of Lords have had their second day debating the Digital Economy Bill, and started talking about the issue that takes up most of the bill ? Online infringement of copyright, which covers clauses 4-17 of the bill. The first amendments discussed would come before Clause 4...

My first ? banking scam of 2010

Posted on January 08, 2010
Dear CustomerThis is to inform you that your access to our online banking service has been suspended. This was as a result of several multiple sign in attempt failures, recently recorded in our security logs. Click here to reactivate your online access Security Center HSBC Bank plc ...

3DTV

Posted on January 06, 2010
ESPN and Discovery Channel are both launching 3-D networks in the US, BskyB is planning the same in the UK, does that mean 3DTV has arrived? I hope not. Seriously, why would I want a channel of 3D TV? I can’t even be arsed to see films in 3D at the cinema ? which itself [...

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don?t. Why should we?

Posted on January 06, 2010
“?there’s something about being ticketed? and numbered that gives the man the feeling of being a piece of baggage or a convict. One can’t help thinking wistfully of our father’s day, when the world hadn’t grown so small. But one could move about in it without being watched so closely...

Kiss goodbye to a unique sound

Posted on January 05, 2010
I have become a big fan this past year of Grant Goddard’s blog on radio matters, the radio blog. He is a radio analyst/consultant who has a long history of involvement in the industry which makes his blog a must read to anyone with an interest in the radio business...

Best Films 2009

Posted on December 23, 2009
In no particular order: - 1.The Beaches of Agnes 2.O?Horten 3.500 Days of Summer 4.Let the Right One In 5.Star Trek 6.Me and Orson Welles 7.Slumdog Millionaire 8.Frost/Nixon 9.The Wrestler 10.Gran Torino

Best Books 2009

Posted on December 23, 2009
Top 10 Books of 2009 1. Anne Tyler ? Noah’s Compass. One of the most consistently good writers on the planet, and frankly no one does this type of dysfunctional family /relationship stuff better. 2. Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze. This was one of the most pleasant surprises on 2009...

Best Gigs 2009

Posted on December 22, 2009
Yes, it’s that time of the year again. The gig of the year was Nell Bryden. After, that the rest are in no particular order. 1. Nell Bryden / Tom Mckean & The Emperors @ Monto Water Rats 09/02/2009 (She proved this was not a one off @Borderline 13/11/2009) I think the reason this [...

The Song Remains the Same - Judging a book by its cover

Posted on December 10, 2009
I was reading this morning in the Wall St Journal that HarperCollins (News Corp) , Simon & Schuster (CBS Corp) and Hachette Book Group (Lagardere SCA) have all decided that from next year they are going to delay the availability of e-book publications of many of their new Hardback titles in 2010 for between 1-6 [...

Rage Against The X Factor!

Posted on December 10, 2009
Rage Against The X Factor this year and download “Killing in the Name” from December 13th, in an effort to make it this year’s Christmas Number One. Join the 400,000 strong at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/group.php?gid=2228594104

You seen my telecopier?

Posted on December 10, 2009
Apparently the nature of my name is “like a person worthy of confidence and the reputation ” Oh you flatter me, Hadja chiwe Diallo. If it wasn’t for that bit, you’d have had me; but you can only take believability so far, so I’m going to have to decline you kind offer and keep [...

Lords a leaping over Digital Economy Bill

Posted on December 04, 2009
The Digital Economy Bill was debated for the first time in the UK’s House of Lords this week. As is the case with the bill as a whole the main points of discussion centred around the provisions to deal with copyright and p2p filesharing, indeed it even offered an opportunity for Peter Mandelson to practice his [...

Things I hate about Government and associated organisations online

Posted on December 02, 2009
No Links to documents Publishing press releases mentioning other documents such as consultations without providing a link or url to the document, instead just adding a note under ‘Note to Editors’ that the relevant doc is available from your website...

Social networking data taxonomy

Posted on November 26, 2009
Just read an interesting post by Bruce Schneier on his idea for a taxonomy of social networking data, which he sets out as follows: 1. Service data. Service data is the data you need to give to a social networking site in order to use it. It might include your legal name, your age, and your [...

Breaking news at Bing ? no one cares

Posted on November 23, 2009
Techcrunch and others seem to be running with the story of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp looking to maybe cut a deal with Microsoft to allow it to carry links to its news content whilst cutting off Google. I’m sure the folks at Google are thinking ? so what...

Public Lending Right in the new Digital Economy Bill

Posted on November 20, 2009
The Government has published the Digital Economy Bill. It contains lots of interesting things, which I may come back to in further pots, but I thought that as a Librarian (it is easy to forget reading this blog), I should bring people’s attention to Section 44 - Public lending right (1) Section 5(2) of the Public Lending [...

EU Telecoms package set to pass as EP and Council compromise on internet freedom

Posted on November 05, 2009
Well it happened quicker than I thought, but the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers reached an agreement on EU Telecoms Reform, by the end of the first day of the conciliation procedure. The two sides reached a quite comprise over the clause to guarantee access to the internet...

TALK to your employees - The radical approach to managing social media usage

Posted on November 03, 2009
Thanks to James Mullan and Headshift for bringing my attention to this must read post of Capgemini’s ‘Capping IT Off’ blog entitled ‘4 Myths about blocking Internet access in the enterprise’ The post echoes comments I made in my post from last week ‘Why ?wasted time? is wasted column inches’ about just why blocking access to [...

Is Twitter the rss reader of the future?

Posted on October 30, 2009
Web Worker Daily is asking a question that a number of people have asked during 2009, and that is ? Is Twitter replacing the rss reader? Interestingly another blogger Jeff Tucker did a post yesterday entitled RSS Isn?t Dead, So Better Organize Your Feed Reader I think the answer to WWD’s question probably depends on who [...

Why ?wasted time? is wasted column inches

Posted on October 29, 2009
I see this week it was that time of year when surveys or reports come out detailing how much the UK economy is effected by ‘wasted time’ in the workplace. Of course, there is always a scapegoat for this and the headline in the Daily Telegraph ‘Twitter ‘costs British economy �1...

You raise me up ?

Posted on October 23, 2009
You, my regular reader, will no doubt have realised what a genius I am by now … or a genuine arse perhaps … but I think my true essence may have been captured by this new comment that was ? for some strange reason ? flagged as spam: “A wonderful article?...

Why I became a Librarian

Posted on October 01, 2009
Woodsiegirl - yes her again, had a nice post about why she became a librarian. She liked it so much she set up a wiki for others to share their stories too. She became a librarian by accident. My mom often used to mention my name and accidents too. When I was younger, a lot of friends [...

Reading habits - Meme

Posted on September 28, 2009
Picked up this meme Via Organising Chaos / WoodsieGirlDo you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?Does a nice glass of red wine, a cold beer, or a cup of Earl Grey tea (depending on time of year/location) count?Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of [...

Like a Virgin - Target practice for mobile operators?

Posted on September 24, 2009
Latest issue of New Media Markets has an interesting article on why Virgin Media could be a good target for a major mobile player. Whilst any move may still be months/years away, Christopher Nicholson from equity research firm Oraca identifies Telefonica and KPN as the most likely candidates to make the move...

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