Read this. Awful warning for us all.

Read it. Do them.

The role of the state.

Hmmm....

The new Russian alphabet. (I especially like Щ for Щкайп.)

Try love.

For once - a malware warning that is actually true!

#fb The truth behind the Big Brother pic.

An insider's take on "the worst IT disaster in British banking history", the RBS crash.

What does your corporate tweeting reveal about your corporate values?

The new panopticon, as illustrated by Melissa Stetten and Brian Presley.

Change your password - now!

Top Tips!

Cory Doctorow on interfacing with the real world.

Does your blog obey European law on cookies?

Aimed at marketing folks, but lessons here for us all!

The Internet dunnit.

Stross predicts death of DRM.

The dark side of the Facebook and Foursquare APIs.

1) Start with WordPress, self-installed version 2) Sort out a domain name and website hosting 3) Get WordPress up and running 4) Keep away prying eyes 5) Get a theme 6) Get the right plugins 7) Put in some content!

"Don't ever rest, not until more than half the UK has better than average broadband speed"!

…in a few easy steps.

Why the open web will wither and Facebook-like walled gardens have won.

Google just broke its search engine.

"shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red. White dots indicate places where many people live and many IP addresses are available."

Today’s great information technology goes out onto the streets with us on our smartphones. It does not only convey information from top to bottom, but also from bottom to top and side to side. It continues to convey information, however, from top to bottom. A lot of information. In the internet age, those at the apex of politics, business or civil…

I love the internet. I live here. You know at parties how people, if the conversation tends towards the online, will say 'oh, I prefer real human interaction to all this Twitter nonsense'? I stare at them in horror and go 'are you *insane*?! Twitter *is* real human interaction, turned up to the maximum!

- because Facebook is suicidal.

"if you’re not paying, you’re not the customer, you’re the product."