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Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
Oh yes , for another example one David Miranda comes to mind ;-)...
Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
You'd need a complete control over the internet for that, to prevent those tens of thousands of active people, who talk to each other over all kinds of media, from realizing that something fishy is going on. But you don't...
Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
Apropos to some comments and opinions above, I think one of the great tricks pulled by the powers-that-be was convincing people that if you choose to go against the state, you're only worth listening to if you stick around to...
Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
Movie is "Red dawn" , the first directed by John Milius and the remake by Dan Bradley. In the remake the invasion is done by North Korea ! From http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/red-dawn-2012 : If you're wondering how North Korea (population 25 million)...
Commented on Short Story: Bit Rot
The story also exists at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/bitrot.html .I saw it there September last year. A case of link rot perhaps ?...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)