Guide to common mistakes that are made when using SMS / text messages for marketing… Read More

So, a couple of hours after I publish the post on Friday, the Guardian reveal that GCHQ are essentially downloading the internet. All of it. Daily. “Mastering the Internet” they modestly call it. I suspect the Internet might have a view on that. How to Respond When they Want Access to Everything Simple: Time for some good old-fashioned British… Read More

It’s been an entertaining couple of weeks really – plenty to read during lunch breaks. Hacker News front page has been almost 100% Verizon+PRISM and snooping related stories since the original news of the whistle blowing broke. Reasonable considering what the Guardian appears to have revealed, but insane considering the near complete destruction of individual privacy over the last… Read More

Yesterday a couple of the news sites had a piece on Lone Signal allowing anyone to transmit a text message to the stars. “At Lone Signal, we believe that crowdsourcing messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) is the ideal approach to establishing a stable, cohesive, and well-resourced interstellar beacon on Earth.” “Lone Signal allows anyone with… Read More

Twenty years of a free and open WWW. The first website at CERN has now been resurrected on the original URL.… Read More