I took place in a discussion with various notables just before Xmas for an edition of the BBC’s Digital Planet radio programme and just remembered it has now come out and you can download and...
On Friday, the ICANN Board approved some controversial renewal contracts for the .biz, .info and .org top-level Internet domains. In a press conference a few hours later, chairman Vint Cerf urged the reporters to read...
I mentioned about a month ago how I was considering setting up a second blog so I could more easily separate my personal and professional life. And yesterday, twice, I was reminded that there is...
There are two Board positions going at UK registry Nominet that will be decided on Wednesday (27 September) at the company’s annual general meeting in London. Last week, Nominet announced that there were six candidates...
So far the US government has been explicitly urged by just about every speaker at the [tag]NTIA[/tag] meeting in Washington discussing [tag]ICANN[/tag] that it transition its own role on the Internet to a more international...
This morning the new Home Secretary [tag]John Reid[/tag] gave his first interview since taking over the job to Radio 4’s Today programme. It was interesting for a number of reasons not least of which was...
Yesterday lunchtime, quite by accident, I saw that at 5pm that afternoon at the [tag]Oxford[/tag] Playhouse was the annual Charles [tag]Simonyi[/tag] Lecture, to be given by Nobel-prize winning scientist Sir Harry [tag]Kroto[/tag], on the subject...
There was an open public meeting of Pro-Test at Oxford’s Town Hall last night from 7pm to 9.15pm. The flyers sold it as: “Come and discuss the case for animal research with leading scientists, politicians,...
There's a lot of fuss around podcasts, but with each iteration of technology that hands production control to the individual, we are finding that it takes less time for high-quality content to appear. I remember...
The IGF formation meeting is over, at least in terms of formal consultations. In the next few days, the dates of the first inaugural Internet Governance Forum in Athens will be announced. It will be...