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#99: Problems, but this aint one of them

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Brought to you from The Kemptown Trading Post & Coffee Shop, 28 St Georges Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 1ED. The conversation this morning includes: Niks Google Age Issues Israel and Iran: A love story? (TED video by Ronny Edry) Google Glasses and the Social Contract App.Nets wrong direction  Libraries the make space of tommorow [...]

 
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#95: The new middlemen

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

On the day that Nik couldn’t find anywhere to park in Brighton: Bitcoin adoption remains on trend. UK ISP Filtering blocks legitimate websites. And we all know how well Filtering works dont we Dave ?  A Freemarket Fix for the copyright racket. Consumer profiles tell Advertisers who you were , not who you will be. [...]

 
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#94: Nearly no news

Monday, November 19th, 2012

On the day that Andy left his parking slip in the car: Bitcoin marches onwards as WordPress accepts payment As a payment system Bitcoin will not go away  Sinofsky is Offski but where goes Windows 8  ? Small Firms easy prey for Security Concerns Prime Minister David Cameron considers more pointless legislation. Niks getting angry [...]

 
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#93: A month’s worth of stuff

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

On the day that Andy wan’t ill, the moon was in the correct phase, a bazooka attack didn’t happen down Andy’s road, and therefore it was possible to do a show: UK Govt to Subsidize Rural Broadband Why do we have a Tax payer backed Tech City organisation? the UK Govt come down in favour [...]

 
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#92: Lost in Apple Maps

Monday, October 8th, 2012

On the day that we wore the cloud (i.e. it pissed down): Finland looks to crowd source democracy a little more. Social Media National Identity Cards. German Internet Exchange peaking towards 2TB overnight data. Facebook suspends photo data from Facial tagging. Unphased by this Facebook want us to become snitches. Travis Luedeke author of The [...]

 
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#90: Closing Ceremony Cash In

Monday, August 13th, 2012

On the day that Nik discovered a new cafe: The US refuses to hand over the internets Never mind though as ISPs throttle connections for Torrents Probably because 3 strikes is failing for the industry We can probably blame the terrorists Recorded at Bread and Milk, Trafalgar Street, Brighton

 
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#89: unBanned from the Broadband

Monday, July 30th, 2012

On the day that Andy was late to Horsham – thanks to the roadworks on the A23: Facebook abstainers may be suspicious  Chat can Overthrow a Govt.  Myths about Real Names Tweets are Holidng up the Games Alex Day breaks rules  Record Labels protect only themselves Recorded at New House Farm Cafe, Horsham.

 
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#88: A portion of non-Olympic chips

Monday, July 16th, 2012

On the day that it rained (again) – but at least the Olympic torch is coming to Brighton: [PDF] A Recommendation to use Email as a Social Network . Def Lepard finding a copyright loophole. Will BYOD be the next ‘thing’ to spawn gurus and experts ? Evernote and Pocket fast becoming my goto tools [...]

 
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#87: Upskirt for Everyone

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

On the day that Nik had to pay an extortionate rate to park in Brighton: Google Glass Project If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear Theresa May (MP ) Plans a snoopers Charter;  Black boxes for everyone. Keeping up the pressure on ACTA Don Tapscott did a great TED video on The [...]

 
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#86: Would you Jubilee-eave it?

Monday, June 18th, 2012

After all the Bank Holiday interupptions it looks like we are back to normal. Outrage Over Dinner; NeverSeconds lives. A Digital Bill Of Rights; crowdsourcing law. Google warn over state sponsored hacking Speaking of State Spying; UK Govt wants your Browser. Then again they are alarmed by censorship from the west. Will Shows about Video Games [...]

 
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