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People working in the realm of information technology love polarising arguments, something I’ve touched upon a number of times. [Just type in "blefuscu" into the search box for the blog and you will see the posts]. Over the last five years or so, one of the arguments I have been fascinated by is that surrounding [...]

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I couldn’t resist picking up the phone and talking to Doc, especially when he came “back at me” after my Real A-Listers post. Take a look at what he said. More importantly, do comment and suggest the ones you think are Real A-Lister sites.
And while on the subject of Doc. I found out that my [...]

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Censorship is not necessarily something that everyone experiences. Which is why I remember my first experience vividly. It was December 1975, we were fresh out of school and preparing to go to university, discovering new habits and freedoms, experimenting in many ways and places. Heady days.
They were also dangerous days, particularly in a city and [...]

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[Yes, it's a cricket post. Apologies to those not yet afflicted.]
Twenty20. The IPL. Darrell Hair. Sreesanth, Harbhajan, Collingwood, de Villiers. The Ponting bat. Jelly babies. The Pietersen stroke. Difficult times for cricket lovers? Not really. Aficionados know that the ideals of the game never change: they know what’s cricket and what’s not cricket. Humans are [...]

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Growing up in Calcutta during the Sixties and Seventies, I was brought up acutely aware of the role played by energy in my daily life. Load-shedding was a daily occurrence; this, given Calcutta’s average temperatures (27C) and relative humidity (over 90%), ensured that I have a disproportionately high liking for air conditioning and for ice [...]

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Gapingvoid tweeted this earlier this morning.

Coming from Hugh, that’s saying something. Even if he has “retired” to Alpine.
So I went and took a look at the story: The Techcrunch Web Tablet project. Which seems to look like this:

Now neither Michael Arrington nor Hugh Macleod needs any link love from me. So why am I writing [...]

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If you’re eclectic in your reading of print media, it may have occurred to you that there are some people around, people who are quick to dismiss the blogosphere as an echo-chamber, full of shallow and superficial like-minded people who couldn’t write an accurate and in-depth story about anything to save their lives.
If that’s the [...]

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Bass: A male singer who sings in the lowest vocal range.
Bass: A name shared by many species of popular gamefish.
Bass: The name of a Cornell professor of neurobiology and behaviour, studying how vocal communication evolved with ancient species by researching ….. a low-humming fish…..
Fearful symmetry? Whole story here.

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For years I’ve been watching the way people aggregate and summarise what they do, and how they make such aggregations available to others. In the old days we used to call these chronological aggregations diaries, and we’ve had many famous diarists over the centuries.
Some part of me is deeply enmeshed in an oral tradition: as [...]

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For years, I’ve been told that people in IT are obsessed with “the technology” without really understanding “the business”. This has been good for some people, with the creation of a hybrid role ["Don't worry, Superman is here; I'm a normal person who speaks geekish as well, and I will save the world for you"].
Over [...]

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