What did you want to do when you were five years old? I wanted to be a driver of a big red London bus. I thought that would be the best job in the world. As I got older my thoughts changed slightly.

I’ve heard Sue talk about her life a couple of times, and I’m really glad she’s written it down in her blog. Like all great stories it has a happy ending, do keep that in mind.

Over on Wired, Moxie Marlinspike addresses the cliched question of  ’nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ when discussing security issues. It might be focused on America, but the principles still stand, and the view is especially relevant in the current climate.

If the federal government had access to every email you’ve ever written and every phone call you’ve ever made, it’s almost certain that they could find something you’ve done which violates a provision in the 27,000 pages of federal statues or 10,000 administrative regulations. You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.

Let’s just say that it wasn’t pretty, and it shows why the female reporters in the gaming world, unfortunately, need a really thick skin

Stef Lewandowski:

There are certain days in a life that, on looking back, turn out to have been major turning-points. Where up until that day, things are a certain way, and then from that point on, everything is completely different. I had one of those days, and it lead me to make a decision, and to follow a simple rule from then onwards – to create something every day.

BBC Weather app released, and all I can see is that there is no iPad version, and the smaller mobile OSs (Windows Phone an Blackberry notably) are missing. Low hanging fruit reached for the devs, now how about you use the licence fee to reach the stretch goals?

Marketing Land:

On Friday there were more Vines shared on Twitter than Instagram photos. According to Topsy Analytics… there were about 2.37 million links to vine.co shared on Twitter over a 24-hour period as of about 11:30 pm PT Friday night. That’s well ahead of the 2.14 million links to instagram.com that Topsy counted in the same 24 hours.

What changed? I suspect the increased user base through the release of Vine on Android on the Monday before these numbers has a lot to do with it. Let’s see how many of those new users are retained in the next few weeks. If Vine is going to go anywhere, it needs to retain the curious.

@PRISM_NSA

So, who else is pumped about Google Glass?

Christina Bonnington:

No matter what Mountain View says about changing user habits, though, both Now and Plus do one thing: They keep you in Google’s world. It’s a de-emphasis of content source. In other words, rather than reading Cat Fancy religiously, you’re reading the Animals category religiously — a category populated by the sites Google’s products think you’ll enjoy most. The focus is on the places, people, and subjects surrounding an article, not the brands that create them. And instead of receiving the headlines from CNN in your reader, they’re pushed to you on a Google service like Now or Plus.

Or it could be that Google really has your best interests at heart.

…I think shareholders are higher up Google’s priority list than users.

I’m having far too much fun with ‘Us vs Them’s’ “6 lines of JavaScript that write Doctor Who plots indistinguishable from the current series.” For example:

The TARDIS intercepts a distress signal from the Moon, but the Sonic Screwdriver picks up a signal from an unexpected lifeform. The visitors discover the last Gelth. A crack in the fabric of space and time saves the day. William Shatner is revealed as a new incarnation of the Master.

Daniel Nazer on the EFF:

We’d like to enlist your help to fight this troll. One way to defeat a troll is to prove—either in court or at the patent office—that the claimed invention was not new (or was obvious). In other words, show that the patent applicant didn’t really invent anything. To do this, we need to find publications from before October 2, 1996 that disclose similar or identical ideas (this also known as prior art). The best prior art will include publications describing early versions of podcasting or any other kind of episode distribution over the Internet.

I;m drawing a blank, but I’m sure there are others out there who can help.

Another nod to the hackers, tinkerers, and dreamers in the Web 2.0 world, as Flickr announces they are recruiting through the source code on their front page. Not only does it flag up the curious, it also gives a nice little quirky PR story once it becomes public knowledge. Win-win.

Unfortunately (a) digital is starting from a much smaller base, so in raw terms it’s still tens of millions behind print; and (b) it’s for the Daily Mail website. Still, lets take it as a positive sign for newspapers in general.

Just looking at advertising, DMGT said that digital advertising growth across DMG Media now exceeds print advertising decline: “This is a significant inflection point for the business”, the company said.

Jaron Lainer in Salon:

At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people. Where did all those jobs disappear? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

“These agencies use communications date – the who, when, where and how of a communication, but not its content – to investigate and prosecute serious crime,” it says. ”Communications data helps to keep the public safe – it is used by the police to investigate crimes, bring offenders to justice and to save lives.

“This is not about indiscriminately accessing internet data of innocent members of the public.”

The problem is this. Until someone has had their day in court and declared guilty by a jury of their peers… they are all innocent members of the public.

So Marrisa Mayer, current Yahoo CEO and former Google VP,  is trying to get the company out of the web-search deal with Microsoft, to presumably switch to one with Google (who have indicated they are willing to go into a similar partnership with the purple site).

Colour me surprised.