Politics
Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
The hyper-revolution - a video Paid Members Public
I’m such a sucker for these things, and this is a well-done example…
Meaning: Vinay Gupta on the perils and possibilities of the future Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/vinay-gupta.jpg] *Catching up on my liveblogged notes from last week’sMeaning Conference [http://meaningconference.co.uk/]– I ran out of laptop battery, so couldn’t post them at the time. * The second act of the afternoon session is
Reed Elsevier: a business model under pincer attack Paid Members Public
Robert Andrews highlights the political dangers to the traditional Reed Elsevier [http://www.reedelsevier.com/] business model, by quoting a research note from Berstein Research’s Claudio Aspesi [http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/10/open-access-research-catastrophic-for-reed-elsevier/] : > We think the risk posed to the Elsevier business model is substantial. We believe
Hacks/Hackers Brighton - making Matter and exposing eavesdropping Paid Members Public
Bobbie Johnson – making Matter matter About a year ago – he got pissed off. He came from The Guardian which has a “troubled” relationship with profit. Why does the meaty, good in-depth investigative stuff he likes not really exist online? Why does it need paper subsidy to make it work. And
Can we have growth in a resource constrained world? Three MPs debate Paid Members Public
Panel * Greg Barker MP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Barker], Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change * Caroline Lucas [http://www.carolinelucas.com/], Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion * Norman Baker MP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Barker], Under-Secretary of State for Transport GB: Efficiency is a
Tom Steinberg: how to open the data people actually want Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/tom.jpg] Tom Steinberg [http://www.mysociety.org/about-tom-steinberg/], founder and director of mySociety [http://www.mysociety.org/] mySociety is a charitable enterprise that exists to make people more powerful by giving them access to democratic process – like being
RSA - The Spirit of Cities Paid Members Public
One of the advantages of often using the RSA House [http://www.thersa.org/house] as my London office is that there are some really excellent lunchtime events in my workplace. Today, Avner de-Shalit [http://www.deshalit.huji.ac.il/], professor of democracy and human rights at the Hebrew University
A warning... Paid Members Public
Today is a day of protest all over the web, against legislation proposed in the US that many, myself included, believe will do serious damage to the web. Many sites, including [Wikipedia](http://www.wikipedia.org "Wikipedia") and [Boing Boing](http://www.boingboing.net "Boing Boing"
