Yes, who would have thought it. Machine-envy is on the top ten google hits for anonymity for paedophiles. In fact, Becky has two (count ‘em) hits in the top ten. I wonder what the adsense value is in that….
Just another day watching the statraq data for this site. But stattraq is [...]
Categories: networks
This week’s column in the New Statesman picks up on the damning indictment of my journalist prowess that has since disappeared from my Wikipedia entry:
“It was a crushing verdict: ‘Becky Hogge is a journalist of no particular fame or distinction.’ My ultimate judge was Rajah, an expert on many things, including Cuban judo champions, the [...]
Categories: networks, newstatesman
That’s me.
Categories: networks, newstatesman
Last week’s column for the New Statesman was a pithy little number entitled “When world leaders blog…”, which for some reason I didn’t point to at the time. This week’s is on the DEFRA wiki. Coincidentally, the day after my piece was published (that’ll be last Thursday), Guido Fawkes and his gang of merry co-conspirators [...]
This fortnight’s column for openDemocracy is about darknets, anonymisation and crypto-anarchy. Horray!
“People who want to hide their activities online already have the tools to do so. We’re just giving those tools to the general public.” These were the words of Rickard Falkvinge, chairman of Sweden’s Piratpartiet (Pirate Party), when he revealed that [...]
Categories: law, networks, surveillance
When I was a kid, I used to think working in the music industry would be, like, the coolest thing ever. In my early twenties, I started doing music writing, and started having my doubts. Then, as a tech journalist, I started meeting people from the BPI and I knew the mirror had cracked.
At twelve, [...]
Categories: business, freeculture, law, networks
This week’s column for the New Statesman is on AOL’s search data blunder of a fortnight ago.
Since filing, there’s been some interesting developnments worth linking to, such as this story from the NYT of one searcher who identified herself from the data and this piece in the WSJ on what the search trends say about [...]
With news in today’s UK papers that the Deleting Online Predators Act went down a storm at the House of Representatives last week, this fortnight’s column for openDemocracy asks if legislation is the right response to cases of child molestation involving social networking sites:
“Warning: this article cites language that some readers may find [...]
Categories: law, networks, opendemocracy
This week’s column in the New Statesman is all about bubble 2.0:
“It is unlikely that when Prince penned the immortal line “Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1999″, what he had in mind was a bunch of old media professionals hunkered in a central London hotel basement earnestly discussing ways to “monetise content”. Yet [...]
Categories: business, networks, newstatesman