My name is Martin Haywood. I’ve been writing this blog for around a decade, even though the earliest post dates don’t reflect that. When I started the pages were static and only people far more tied up in the internet … Continue reading
Here’s what some friends of mine and I have been working on for a couple of years now. We’ve got it all nailed down and we’re looking for funding and other kinds of support: That’s our TEDx talk about the … Continue reading
Mark Kaplan, 18 months ago, presented the ultimate blog argument. Titled “Notes on Rhetoric” it was a list of the phrases and techniques used in dodgy comment thread debate. It’s hilarious and very much to the point. I’ll give you … Continue reading
Carnival of the Liberals has bulldozed my little shanty town and set up its tents on my metaphorical village green. Some Bloodthirsty Vegetarians even took time out from a glass of Shiraz and an attempt to discover which science fiction … Continue reading
TheWaz recently posted an article giving the link to the Wired magazine leaking of the documents involved in the AT&T NSA wiretap case brought by EFF. It boils down to the idea that if your internet traffic goes through any … Continue reading
Some things have always been abundant, and some things have been abundant from time to time. Think about fresh air and water, or grazing land in the early part of white settlement of North America. Economics, however, can be defined … Continue reading
Wired describes how AT&T may be attempting to conceal documents relating to a case EFF is bringing against it for funnelling it’s internet backbone into the NSA for monitoring. Not that it comes as any surprise really that NSA would … Continue reading
Anonymizer have produced a tool to allow Chinese web surfers to circumvent the national firewall, by encrypting communication and routing it through one of a number of IP addresses. Google.com should be accessible by this means. The current site from … Continue reading
From Steal this Poem by Claire Fauset: Think about it, I can’t tell you anything new. In all these millenia of human existence there can only be a few new ideas to be thought through. So do we treat them … Continue reading
Donald Rumsfeld, in a recent speech made some extremely provocative comments about the new media and public relations: Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today’s media age, but for the most part we, our country, our government, … Continue reading
Search engines, including Google, AOL, MSN and Yahoo, keep records of each search performed and and can associate each one with an IP address and possibly also a cookie. It appears that the search engine companies can be compelled to … Continue reading
Reporters Without Borders (on 25 January) accused the Internet’s biggest search-engine, Google, of “hypocrisy” for its plan to launch a censured version of its product in China, meaning that the country’s Internet users would only be able to look up … Continue reading
Recent Events Echelon is a NSA communications intercept system which has hit the news again recently, in spite of the US being very coy about admitting to its existence. The main difference between it and other electronic signals intelligence systems … Continue reading