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Rationing: the UK’s parallel currency
Environment Minister Hilary Benn again rebuffed calls this week for WW2-style energy rationing to return to the UK. He was responding to a Select Committee report urging ministers to issue 45 million Britons with an energy trading “credit card” – a mammoth techno-bureaucratic exercise costing several billions of pounds a year to operate. What’s interesting…
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Microsoft hands Google the future of digital books
While Bill Gates now holds a lucrative monopoly on digital images, his successors don’t see the same prosperous future for the digital word. Microsoft is withdrawing from the Open Content Alliance digitisation project and will cease to scan books, the company said on Friday. It’s abandoning its Live Book Search venture – a curious decision,…
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Failing Web 2.0 stars pray for copyright abolition
Two articles were published today of some note, and if you can put them in context, you can begin see the true, scary picture of internet economics today. The one that’s usually too scary for the posh papers or broadcast media to describe. Exhibit One is a deadpan report in the Financial Times, bylined to…
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Technorati knocks itself out. Again
Technorati, the comically inept search engine, has redesigned itself again – knocking itself out in the process. The site was down when bloggers checked in yesterday. More importantly, the latest redesign is a tacit admission that it’s given up on its original mission – indexing the world’s weblogs. Technorati now claims to present “zillions of…