Anti-spam law bites?

The first European test of the anti-spam laws.

Standards

Standards are always going to be important and at the edge of computing, currently blogging, there are some moves to create standards around data mining.

Tips for dealing with email

An interesting piece on the Harvard Business School site.

Richard Stallman and RF ID

This piece on Memex 1.1 (John Naughton's blog) discusses Richard Stallman's approach to being given an RF ID pass at the WSIS Conference in Tunisia.

Mobile phones

No contemporary cultural artifact embodies the genius and the disruptive excess of capitalism as clearly as the cell phone. Ubiquitous in most developed societies in Europe, the Americas and Asia, the cell phone has become a laboratory – some would say an asylum – for testing the limits of technological convergence. Less a telephone today than a multi-purpose computer, cell phones are game consoles, still cameras, email systems, text messengers, carriers of entertainment and business data, nodes of commerce. Particular age cohorts and subcultures have begun to appropriate cell phones for idiosyncratic uses that help to define their niche or social identity. Today’s Forum will examine the cell phone as a technological object and as a cultural form whose uses and meaning are increasingly various, an artifact uniquely of our time that is enacting, to borrow the words of a contemporary novelist, “a ceaseless spectacle of transition.”

From MIT Cell phone culture.

Email

Sir Bob Geldof has some strong views on email - check out what he said here.

About this blog

I'm going to use this blog to post snippets that may be of interest to those studying T175 "Networked Living: Exploring Information and Communication Technologies" with the Open University in the UK.