Damien Mulley

Thirsty Work – Wine Book with hip attitude. Jamie Oliver’s wine guy. Wine without the pretention?

Another view about Google Print. This is more in-line with my thinking. Why doesn’t Google make it opt-in and not opt-out? Why don’t they join the Open Content Alliance?

Suzy on same-sex partnership rights. Even Labour are now backing away from supporting equal rights.

Tony Bowden on issues with FOI requests. I’ve done quite a lot, though none in the past while, some orgs are quite helpful and some will interpret the guidelines for their own agendas and refuse to give anything away. One great excuse I heard was that I was not provided with details of how much the statutory instrument payed consultants as this would harm the business of the consultants as their competitors would know how much they were payed and could undercut them the next time. In fucking fairness!

Who would have thought working on a Trawler could be so interesting?

Top Thirty facts about Chuck Norris. Chuck doesn’t sleep, he waits.

Robin comes up with the idea of bytecasting. And I like:

Ingredients:

• Asterix Server
• Mobile phone
• An event
• RSS Feedreader

How to cook: Take a mobile phone user, mix with an event like a conference, phone the asterix server, do a thinly sliced podcast, decorate with newly created tags or ones you’ve prepared earlier and serve to the feedreading public.

In english, what am I on about? Podcasting via mobile phone at an event. Allowing multiple people to send in podcasts that all get wonderfully served out as one podcast as a medley or compilation of views of the event. As a bonus you could subscribe only to specific tags and in doing so skipping the podcast from that eejit who is always negative. So, you can get the podcasts of everyone that went to an event in one big podcast delivered to you, or the podcasts of the people who are just talking about the talk on Web 3.14.

Clever idea and has some interesting uses I’d say.

RTE Reports that the Advocate General said sharing flight data with the US is illegal. Well done to the EU Parliament for protecting EU citizens by trying to get this stopped. Typical that this was pushed into Law when Ireland had the EU Presidency, like they tried to do with software patents.

An agreement by EU governments to give the US Homeland Security Department details of all passengers flying between the EU and the US has been cast in doubt by one of the EU’s top law officers.

The Advocate General, the top legal advisor of the European Court of Justice, says that last year’s air passenger data agreement must be annulled because it breached EU law.

1212 users online at the same time. Woah.

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