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…And I’ve just deleted the #ShareThis plugin from my blog. Here’s why.
The ShareThis people sent me a very nice e-mail: The ShareThis plugin on your website has been updated! If you would like to customize the look of your widget, go to the ShareThis Options page in your WordPress administration area …and the new plugin looks great, and has different themes! And then you discover that…
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BBC Surrey Radio interview on #RonHoward #RUSH Movie at #Blackbushe Airport
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-07
@richardloxley Good idea! # #Hollywood versus the Glow-worm – newspapers should be all over this one… http://t.co/szE0vzsl #hampshire #f1 #ronhoward #movie # @BBC_HaveYourSay Debate in Yateley, Hants, where new Ron Howard movie set proposes to tarmac-over local wildlife http://t.co/h8hA8y0l # :: Nokia and Microsoft to "spend a fortune on marketing" HT: @TheTechEye # why this…
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Hollywood filming of #RonHoward’s #Rush at #Blackbushe Airport was rushed & somehow ill-informed
Backplot (in chronological order): Discovery Analysis Engagement Update If I read the latter of Rachel’s postings correctly, it appears that whomever requested – or perhaps organised – the deal to film Ron Howard’s new Formula 1 movie on Blackbushe Airport: was not made aware that (Wikipedia notwithstanding) Blackbushe Airport is built on Common Land for…
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Talk: “Why you and your phone are huge threats to the Net” #rdggeek Jan 10 http://goo.gl/hjUlO
I’m speaking at Reading Geek Night next Tuesday evening; the evening is themed around the future, apparently, and Jim is seeking other content for talks in the upcoming year. 10..15 minute rant, plus questions. See you there?
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Of murder rates and death penalties…
2008/9: 648 – “20 year low” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/murder-rate-hits-20year-low-1748627.html 2009/10: 619 – “lowest for 12 years” (Huh?) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/20/murder-rate-lowest-12-years Stats for 2010/11 do not seem to be out at the moment. Analysing claims that “the murder rate has doubled since the end of the death penalty” http://fullfact.org/blog/murder_rate_doubled_death_penalty_abolished-2924 Short version: the stats aren’t available for like-to-like comparison, maybe it’s…
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#WhatsApp is being educated in full-disclosure
The first lesson is always the hardest… via WhatsApp Status Changer. Since a while there are rumors about leaks in the ‘amazing’ and free-to-use app WhatsApp. The engineers of WhatsApp are telling their customers that they will fix it as soon as possible while it’s been a long time now. So on this website we…
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iPhone 4S Users Consume Double the Mobile Data of iPhone 4 – Tech Europe – WSJ
How service providers see the people to whom they provide service: WSJ: 1% of users are consuming 50% of data In tackling the demands on their network—and in the absence of additional spectrum to carry the data, or more efficient technologies such as next-generation LTE which allow more data to be carried over existing frequencies,…
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Nokia and Microsoft to “spend a fortune on marketing” HT: @TheTechEye # why this will not work
Via @TheTechEye Rumours that Microsoft and Nokia are set to spend over $100 million on marketing Windows 8 tablets and smartphones are rubbish, according to veteran vole-watcher Paul Thurrott, who claims that they are going to spend a lot more. Thurrott said that he has been given the real marketing figure and it is a…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-06
New: #Airzound – A New Toy! #cycling #mtb http://t.co/q4LKP9x3 # @dc4420 Is there a meeting on the 17th ? Got speakers ? # New: Falling off a cycle has never been so much fun… http://t.co/DHluGniI # New: How many vendors have 'celebrated' the 'death' of their software? #ie6 http://t.co/GUnxlJYr http://t.co/ABDvkKlr # :: Why you might…
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NASA go open-source
No, really. I have no idea what this will achieve, but given what they have aegis over it is bound to be interesting…
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So it seems that with the takeover of TweetDeck comes the death of RTs that propagate to Facebook.
Bummer. We shall have to take other measures…