Archive for the 'politics' Category

#33: The Ranting Quarter

Monday, March 8th, 2010

One the day that Andy and Nik were ranting even as they walked tot he cafe…..

Privacy whilst Browsing http://www.hidemyass.com/
EBuyer ( @EbuyerDotCom ) and their Social Media reach http://blog.ebuyer.com/
Twitter Phishing and Bit.ly Protection
Progress on Digital Economy Bill and The Open Rights Group

GO READ THIS : COADEC Which follows on well from our DEBill rant.
Rantingly [...]

 
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#31: The wrong breakfast show

Monday, February 1st, 2010

On the day that Andy bought the wrong breakfast for Nik, we present:

Blogger visited by police
Councils Warned about tweeting
The Apple iPad. Saviour of the Universe ?
Wikileaks temporarily shut down while it seeks funds
Starbucks puts flickr group on hold after confusion about in-store photography policy

Non-savory-breakfastly recorded at Wargames Heaven, 11 Imperial Arcade, Brighton, UK.

 
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#30: Late in The Lounge

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

On the day when Nik had almost recovered from his illness and Andy ate some Lemon Drizzle cake:

Spotify Banned at Oxord Uni.
Big Unions Support Digital Economy Bill
Punctuation Mark for Sarcasm
Amazon Kindle SDK released
Independent Steal Flickr Image

Deliciously recorded at The Lounge, 7 Middle Street, Horsham, West Sussex, UK.

 
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#27: Three Strikes Bill Madness

Monday, December 7th, 2009

On the day that Andy was so shattered after his morning run that he just let Nik rant on and on and on, we present:

Disconnection without trail
Take Action with the Open Rights Group
Lawyers intimidate ‘illegal’ file sharers
Send Mandleson your message
UK Pub fined for drinkers WiFi download
Video snippets of us recording Social Media White Noise episode [...]

 
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#8: Independent Poisening

Monday, March 16th, 2009

On the day that Jury Team went live, our coughing and spluttering interchange covered:

juryteam.org launches today
utterli.com – audio podcasts on the move
Status updates replacing email
Plaxo – address sync between Google contacts and email clients
Sync Google contacts with Thunderbird with Zindus
Nostalgy keeboard management for Thunderbird folders
tinyurl.com/camerondirect
Hashtag poisoning and the skittles homepage fiasco
Tweeterator written by Nik (not [...]

 
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#5: Politics, Virtualisation and Drobos

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Despite the glare of, what must be, the shiniest cafe table I have ever seen, our conversation today features:

The annoyance of non-free WiFi
Joiku Hotspot WiFi
Tweetie for the iPhone
Andy’s iPhone has black screen of death
Stanza for the iPhone
Nik’s Social Media work with the Conservatives
Nik’s 5 Social Media rules (again): arrive, listen, ask, provide, deliver/broadcast
Andy’s Spilling Web [...]

 
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