Links From Wednesday 27th July, 2005

Tom Coates asks where all the UK start ups are. Why are there no Odeos, Flikrs or Six Aparts in blighty?
Link: Plasticbag.org
More on Sony getting caught paying for airtime - Boing Boing links to a 1.1mb PDF that details off all the little perks these ‘desk jockeys’ recieved to push Beyonce instead of a tiny […]

OpenTech 2005 Thoughts After The Event

So, OpenTech 2005, what did I think? Well, apart from my adventures with the iPod Shuffles (and my explanation is getting a nice tag-load of link love), I had a pretty good time. Not exactly stunning, but then I’ve found that most Tech Conferences in the last year or so to be more useful […]

Pledge Banks - UK ID Card and UK Digital Rights

In case you’ve not seen PledgeBank yet, it’s a site where people say they will do something, but only if a certain number of other people will join them in doing it. It’s had some great successes, probably the most notable one so far is reaching a £10,000 legal defence fund for those who refuse […]

The Apple iPod Shuffle Shuffle from OpenTech 2005

Okay, not exactly one of my better ideas, but in the end nobody got hurt, and the iPod Shuffle with the PGP Private Key got back to it’s rightful owner. What am I talking about? My Physical Media Hacking experiment at OpenTech 2005.

I’m still convinced the theory behind this is pretty sound (especially when you […]