Tom Morris

New podcast

Yesterday, I launched a new podcast - London Geek Events.

Subscribe - it’s a fun little show where I put on information about the events in London.

If you have a comment, please send it as an MP3 to tom [at] opiumfield [dot] com

Please feel free to record stuff at events in London and send them in. It’s supposed to be a sort of community resource.

Anyway, tonight I’m off to London Wiki Wednesday.

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Cory Doctorow has published an article on The Guardian’s Comment is Free blog about the utter failure of web filtering. What the commenters fail to see is that it’s public institutions who are often installing filters, despite the fact that they cannot work - they will always have more false positives than false negatives.

BusinessWeek has an article on the new digital copyright protections that are being proposed in the USA by the administration and the [RI|MP]AA (via dctanner).

The blip.tv API would be extremely useful if it was done via QuickSilver. I might write a little (possibly Perl) script to do it…