Tom Morris

Read/WriteWeb reports that there is going to be an Obama-McCain debate on erratic microblogging service Twitter. Oh, wait, not Obama-McCain, but rather the online communications director of the Republican National committee and a professor at Georgetown University. Call me cynical and elitist if you like (and I hold my hands up for the former, and somewhat despair at the misunderstood nature of the latter), but I do not think that Twitter is the right place for this kind of thing. Twitter messages are good for a lot of things - debating presidential politics by proxy is not one of them.

Tech Liberation Front writes about the charade that is paperless tickets. One of the things which fails most about paperless tickets is that you cannot buy a ticket for another person. I had this recently - someone agreed to pay for a train ticket for me. But since you have to insert the credit card into the machine at the station to print the tickets, you can’t actually let another person buy a ticket for you - rather, you have to pay for it with a credit card and then get someone else to give you the cash. Who designs these systems - Ayn Rand?

Another religious community offended by film. Anyone would think they had a choice in their media consumption.