Pay Walls May Work…One Day
Wall Street Journal has a pay wall Predictions from futurologists way back in the early nineties about the World Wide Web suggested that the existing printing presses would probably be the last ones that the publishing industry would need to invest in. They rubbed their hands with exhilaration at the prospect of increasing their readership and revenues without having to increase their costs at the margin by printing extra editions in the future. It... [Read More...]
Your Rights – RIP (Part II)
Consequently The RIP Bill became The RIP Act (or RIPA). The draft code of practice stated that RIPA orders could only be obtained in the interests of national security; for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime or preventing disorder; and in the interests of public safety. “We must ensure that such access is proportionate to the threat and highly regulated, and RIPA introduces, for the first time, strong statutory safeguards to govern... [Read More...]
Your Rights – RIP (Part 1)
The Passage of the Bill In 2000, the UK Government published details of its plans to allow law enforcement agencies to access email correspondence. For the first time, UK police would be able to lawfully read your emails and listen in on your mobile phone conversations. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill was positioned by the UK Government - then in its first term in Government and confident in its powers of spin - as nothing more than... [Read More...]
Twittering Again
Two years ago, a friend introduced me to the micro-blogging service Twitter and suggested that this was going to one of the biggest trends in social networking in years to come. I was sceptical – as I couldn’t really see a practical use. I was not the only one. When I started using the service, I quickly got bored as I couldn’t find anyone tweeting anything interesting and no-one I knew was on Twitter – other than the friend who introduced... [Read More...]
.Tel Domains
This new top level domain may look like just a revenue generator for the die-hard cybersquatters, but it is more than that. Telnic, a UK company, has been awarded the rights to distribute this TLD through several domain registration companies - and sites that use it will work radically differently to existing websites. This is because the publishable info will not be written in html, but in the DNS (domain naming system) itself and thus it will be... [Read More...]
