Archive for the ‘Law’ Category

Legal madness in Milan

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Its not Milan Daaaaaarling this time. Just reading an editorial in the analogue version of the Guardian. On Wednesday, a Milanese court convicted three Google executives of violating privacy and gave them six-month suspended sentences. This is an analogue verdict in a ...

System failure – agriculture

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Part of the premise of No Straight Lines (video), is that there is an entire system failure of an industrial approach to everything that we do. Part of that failure relates to agriculture. Patrick Holden spoke about it very eloquently ...

Obama and the superbranding of politics

Monday, January 25th, 2010 My god Naomi Klein takes me back - No Logo is up there for anyone who is remotely interested in brands. And were I to draw up a time line of books I have read and how each book subsequently ...

The London datastore

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Not what you would quite expect. Dominic Campbell from FutureGov writes The London Datastore will see City Hall release, for the first time, huge realms of previously unavailable data for everyone to see and use free of charge. This is part of ...

The media, censorship and democracy in Ecuador, UK, US

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Very relevant article about media and censorship that deals with recent events in Ecuador and Argentina but also relates that perspective to media and democracy in the US and the UK A key point ...reasonable people may differ on what is the ...

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago. The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4715" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross)"][/caption] Just as the leaks predicted, the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill, which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively ...

The new rules of customer engagement

Friday, November 13th, 2009 I have been asked to make a presentation about the New Rules of Customer Engagement Monday 16th November organised by Canvas8 and takes place in the offices of the architects BDP. You can find out more information here. Also on the ...

Transparency and the web a rolling debate

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in government If health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked ...