Technology links from Nigel Horrocks
Nigel Horrocks has been involved in the internet industry since the early days (1991). He has worked on major sites and was the award-winning editor of NetGuide magazine during its heyday. His association with Radio New Zealand includes following his passion of music and providing jazz programmes for both Radio New Zealand National and Concert.
Nigel has a blog at www.aikenstix.com and can be contacted there.
He can be heard after the 11am news every second Thursday on Nine To Noon.
5 May 2011
What to do if your details were stolen in the PS3 hack
Details of rhe Sony lawsuit against a recent hacker
Read the PS3 hackers blog post
Law firm announces first suit against SonyLaw firm announces first suit against Sony
Amazon explains why it lost data and its computers crashed
6 April 2011
Read in full the judge's decision re Google Books
Download the Child ID theft report (PDF)
31 March 2011
Predicting the future and artificial leaves.
Predicting the future: Institute For The Future, Vodafone Future Agenda, Sustainable Future, Charlie Stross on Near-Future Fiction, Tim O'Reilly - Watching the Alpha Geeks.
Artificial Leaves: Nocera Lab Solar worl, MIT Artificial Leaf 10x more efficient than the real thing, Life Ascending.
24 March 2011
What is a Botnet that sends spam?
10 March 2011
Read about the homeland security's big web bumble
Read the technical stuff about Egypt's close down of the net
The site where you can get shortened web addresses http://bit.ly/
18 February 2011
Space shuttle computer, Moore's Law, Exponential growth, The MOST Important Problem You'll Ever See. Instapaper; Long form.org. Webstock.
10 February 2011
Watch the video showing The Daily.
Sign up for news of New York Times News Me.
Read a list of what's in today's The Daily.
See what Flipboard is for the iPad.
Read about Murdoch's failed iGuide.
See Murdoch's Internet failures.
Hear the Egyptian Tweet messages and on online radio station.
3 February 2011
Many commentators are talking about a decline in the quality of Google's search results. It's pretty important given we all use Google.
The BBC Domesday Project is a canary in the coalmine about the longevity of digital media, whose lifetime isn't long according to The US National Archives (cf the original Domesday Book).
NZ's National Digital Heritage Archive.
27 January 2011
16 December 2010
See the full Google summary of search results country by country
How UK students mapped their protest on Google maps
Read the student protesters own media site
9 December 2010
Read the research company Gartner's predictions
See baseball news sites written by robots, not reporters
See a local version of a coupon daily deal site
Watch the modern artist with a camera attached
2 December 2010
25 November 2010
See Google's blurred out German office
Check the US Beijing pollution readings
Read the Twitter CEO's Tweet about China
18 November 2010
11 November 2010
21 October 2010
14 October 2010
Read the Google engineer’s blog about his cars that drive themselves
The debate about it on the Chronicle of Higher Learning
Check out a thriving Auckland “hyperlocal” news site that has been interviewing Len Brown
A New jersey local site held up as a good US example
7 October 2010
Opinion piece: how social media killed Tyler
How to keep your kids safe on Facebook
30 September 2010
Cyber War – read an extract and see an interview with the author.
Read Wired’s review of the Cyber War book.
Read reviews of The Social Network movie.
23 September 2010
16 September 2010
This blogger is worried about the ethics of RFID tags
Check out these ice cream parlour flavours you get from a tag
Here’s the full Pew Internet report on mobiles
Read Delta airtlines forum discussion on whether to use mobile phones
Read the school principal’s decision to ban technology on Tuesdays
How the Guardian dismisses Apple’s social network
9 September 2010
Blog: Concern about putting tags in pre-schoolers
Visit the Liberty Online only school or California Virtual Academies
2 September 2010
Website investigates company that posted phony reviews
Tongue in cheek artwork suggestions on adapting phones for emergencies
Fox news columnist on FM radio proposal
26 August 2010
Is the internet changing how our brains work?
Read an interview with Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows.
See how the Guardian questions Carr’s thesis.
Read the author’s blog.
Figuratively and physiologically, Facebook users choose to tell their friends exactly where they are - is this Big Brother at last?
Read an article that worries whether Facebook Places is too 1984 Orwellian.
Here a University professor argues in his blog that Facebook Places does
have privacy issues.
How to adjust your Facebook privacy settings.
19 August 2010
Some of the satirical Aussie election stuff on YouTube:
The PM who came in from the cold
Tony Abbott the man your PM should be
12 August 2010
Watch a video of the Google CEO explain why Google Wave was dumped
Google software engineer explains how he worked out the number of books in the world
Catch the Double Rainbow ditty
How a baby might have seen it as a mobile
5 August 2010
Amazon's new Kindle reading device coming to New Zealand
How to tell if your Facebook name was put online
The story of the rape case in Sydney and deleted iPhone messages
15 July 2010
You tube video about the day a robot teacher came to a classroom
Read the New York Times article about robots in education
Read the Pew Institute survey on online relationships
8 July 2010
The website of the company developing flying cars
See a video about a prototype of a car for blind people
See the You Tube video that got a Best Buy salesman fired (Warning: contains bad language)
1 July 2010
Read the full ruling of the Viacom vs Google case
See the book Nigel talked about re the death of the music industry
Apple's iphone problems - see tests done on the antenna
24 June 2010
Australia's plans to censor the Net falter Next Big Thing?; More madness about 3D TV, movies and games; and The New York Times gets lofty about the word "tweet"
Links:
Time magazine comparing Australia's online filter plans with the Chinese internet firewall
View the GetUp Australia TV commercial about the Internet filter
A review of watching the World Cup in 3D
The internal New York Times memo ruling about using the word 'tweet'
10 June 2010
The new Apple iPhone 4 - do we really want to make video calls?
The Hurt Locker company head explodes - read his angry email.
Private space flight - explore SpaceX's site
3 June 2010
How the internet is challenging the control of PR companies and whether community co-op papers are the next big thing.
Phony BP Twitter feed
Bay Citizen paper
Republican site asking for policy ideas
26 May 2010
A site monitoring Google's evil side
Newsweek twitter experiment
Google video announcing Google TV
13 May 2010
US Privacy watchdog group's complaint to the US Federal Commission (PDF)
Fear of the New: Article in San Francisco Chronicle
Create your own twitter newspaper
Examples of twitter newspapers:
29 April 2010
Meet me at the Zoo –first ever You Tube video to be uploaded
The most watched videos on You Tube
Gadget site reveals the next iPhone –and now faces the cops
15 April 2010
Discussion blog about the ethics of Wikileaks
Best judged museum websites (click under "Site name")
Watch out for the new type of advertising coming to your mobile
1 April 2010
Amazon book review with bad comments
Museum of Modern Art explains why it acquired @
18 March 2010
Movie critic sites www.rottentomatoes.com and www.metacritic.com.
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