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Three Lockdowns and a case of home-brew vodka
The UK pandemic lockdown is the first lockdown in Britain in living memory. But for many UK residents like me, brought up…
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Coronavirus Tech Handbook
A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak – link In this uncertain times, when social distancing is…
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Privacy matters – Net.Wars by Wendy Gorssman
Sometime last week, Laurie Garrett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Coming Plague, proposed a thought experiment to her interviewer on MSNBC.…
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Make your town Flourish! Why we made a board game to discuss local economic policy ideas.
Authors Jenni Lloyd, Rosalyn Old and Angharad Dalton Originally posted on nesta.org.uk You have 50 minutes to introduce a group of 36…
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The night of chaos and mince pies at Wikipedia UK General Election 2019 edit night
What is Wikipedia editathon? A gathering of Wiki editors for a live edit session, sometimes overnight, with some contributors attending in-person, while…
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Back to The Future – Internet From 1969 to 2019
Celebrating 50 years of Internet, Here East organised three talks by Internet Pioneers Alan Kay, Peter Kirstein and Eva Pascoe – co-founder of Cyberia…
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Dot Org Internet domains secretly sold to Private Equity – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
On so many sides, in so many ways, the sale of .org is a tangled thicket of stakeholder unhappiness. There seem to…
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Raised by Google – New show at arebytes Gallery
Sarah Selby Opening Thursday 5 December, 6-9pm Exhibition runs Friday 6 December 2019 – Sat 11 Jan 2020, open Tuesday – Saturday…
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Happy birthday, internet – let’s make the next 50 years just as innovative
By Jim Boulton from Digital Archeology How do we define the birth of the internet? As an ambiguous, shifting entity, it is…
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Burn rate – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
One of my favorite moments in the 1996 sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun was when Dick (John Lithgow), the high commander…
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