The family went back to school this week and so my working days were once again quiet, which is very nice (although it does also mean I’m going to have to start buying petrol for the car again, in order to do the school run, which I haven’t had to do for months on end) I don’t care about cookies. Not any more. Or at least, I...

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In the last few months, several of my friends have had either their laptops or phones stolen. It’s only after I really thought what that would mean to me that I realised how serious this would be. It used to be that if my phone got stolen then I would lose my address book and my text messages; if it gets stolen now then I lose a device which has full access to my Google account, i...

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write a new open source application, however small contribute in some way to mySociety find out more about what rights I have to see how and when my data is used by Government departments write to my (pro-ID cards) MP about ID cards an...

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Google are now offering the ability to search your Google Talk conversations in Google Mail. There are also

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One of my old colleagues, Adam Smith, has written a very interesting post called If you know a criminal, are you therefore a criminal? bringing together threads from social networks and current informal network data aggregation tools and comparing the impact of voluntary data provision to that o...

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No2ID spokesman Dave Gould …. said “Why are we spending public money on this technology when it hasn’t been approved by Parliament? Surely that isn’t the way a democracy works? “Why aren’t you informing the public about everything you are doing to create a database of all of our movements. “This is a breach of civil and personal liberties. No other country in the worl...

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Twelve months ago, Stewart Butterfield posted in the Flickr forums saying: We’re continuing to look at private feeds, but it is not easy. Surprisingly, this is not something that seems to have occured to the people who designed RSS or the people who make the readers… I was just thinking today about a project I was wo...

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Dear weirdos, Next time I’m sitting alone, in one of fifty empty chairs in a public building, waiting to be served by the helpful staff, please don’t come and sit next to me and start telling me that the reason for Microsoft’s prodigous output, and all the technological advances of the past thirty years, is because industry is doing deals with aliens. You probably seem totally san...

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Isn’t it amazing just how much we reveal about ourselves on our weblogs now? Some link on del.icio.us took me to a weblog called “Preoccupations“. Within five minutes, I knew who the writer is and where he works,

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I was going to write about the ID cards in the UK. How they’re a bad thing, how we’re going to have to pay for them, and how they’re simply not going to work. Fortunately, Jack Mottram has done it for me : Blunkett’s £40 ID Cards

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