The Belarus Free Theatre performed at the Young Vic this evening. This was in support of the campaign Zone Of Silence. They are asking sympathisers to sign a petition in support of human rights in Belarus. I signed and hope you will want to do the same.
It has been an extraordinary week for discussions about the limits on free speech as the Wikileaks saga rumbles on.
Today, we heard that the domain wikileaks.org had been taken down by a distributed denial of service attack. This was after the content had been moved off Amazon following political pressure in the US.
Whatever the …
The failure of the appeal by Paul Chambers against his conviction for sending a tweet deemed to be a threat of violence against an airport near Doncaster has rightly attracted a lot of comment this week.
Blogger Jack of Kent has written about the case in some helpful detail for The Lawyer as well as on …
Questions were asked in the Lords on Thursday 11th November about the Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme. This was initiated by Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn.
The question was triggered by the sale of a Roman cavalry helmet at auction which was not covered by the Treasure Act as it was made of bronze rather …
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A repost of comment I just added to a Lib Dem Voice thread on this subject -
Declaring my interest as my day job is now with Facebook, I did want also to declare my profound sense of disappointment that the Lib Dems have been supportive of this particular measure.
They did a great job being early …
The Association of Portuguese Telecoms Operators (APDC) held their annual congress on 18th/19th November 2009.
I spoke in a session entitled ‘From Consumers to Coproducers’ which was led off by the singer Ana Free who has built her career using the new web-based distribution channels.
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The Government 2.0 Taskforce in Australia has launched a competition for mashups using government data.
I have been asked to help judge this based on my previous experience with the ShowUsABetterWay competition in the UK.
Please circulate the details of the competition to anyone you think may be interested in submitting an entry – closing date is …