Did anyone see the Cutting Edge documentary on Channel 4 last night about children under 24/7 paranoid parental surveillance? I found it all very depressing.

Internet swashbuckler Ben Hammersley has taken another step towards redeeming himself for inventing the word “podcast” with this programme for Radio 4’s Analysis on the willingness of people to disclose personal information on site like Facebook, and the implications this might have for our notions of privacy. Well worth a listen.

There’s an article in — yes — the Guardian (we do read more widely than this blog might indicate) on the inclusion of high-resolution aerial images available from 192.com (”Sharper aerial pictures spark privacy fears“). These images are, as the article title suggests, extraordinarily detailed for images in the public domain, sufficiently so that “in [...]

The new NESTA report just out (June 2007) Hidden Innovation - How Innovation happens in six ‘low innovation’ sectors is something that every senior politician and strategic manager in England must read.
In this piece I’ll be concerned with the education bit as that’s what I have done in depth for the last 4 years - [...]