Mark Pack

But now? The news that MySpace is letting its users synch their status updates with Facebook is just a small curio. »

Reading the software license from Microsoft for Windows Live Movie Maker (and it is a standard license that applies more widely to Microsoft products), I found this: 4. How You May Not Use the Service. In using this service, you may not:... use the service in a way that harms us or our advertisers, affiliates, [...] »

If you take a look at this page on the Liverpool Council website, you'll see that the council is making available all the contact details for its councillors in one easy data file format - so that people can stick the data into a mailmerge or database and communicate with them all. Badly thought out [...] »

The internet has changed in many ways over the last six years, broadening its international reach and with a far more diverse range of uses. That change is neatly illustrated by comparing the select list of sites that had a Google Pagerank* of 10 back in 2004 and those that do now. Here's the 2004 [...] »

Regular readers will know that I'm a keen user of Contact Islington for reporting graffiti, dumped rubbish, materials left behind by contractors* and so on. My experience of Contact Islington has been rather patchy and can be summarised as: too often gets things wrong first time round but once you get an issue escalated through [...] »

I've been playing around with making content available via the Amazon Kindle store so as an extra little experiment I've also made this blog available. You can subscribe to get in on your Kindle for the princely sum of £1.99 here. If you don't have a Kindle, feel free to insert thought about how the [...] »

A review into the public sector online behemoth that is Directgov is being carried out, starting with the basics of its purpose and strategy. A sister company at work is helping out the review and the ever-cheerful Clare has more details of the review over on Transform's blog. As you can see from those details, [...] »

A typographer would say it’s because the “Please walk on the right” signs don’t use a clear enough font. An ad man would say it’s because there aren’t enough adverts in the station reminding you. A sociologist would say it’s because you just follow the person in front. An architect would say it’s because the [...] »

Donald Rumsfeld is a clever man. His actions have frequently been highly controversial. And he often came up with phrases that were both barmy and yet had some sense hidden inside them. Google boss Eric Schmidt increasingly reminds me of Rumsfeld. Also smart. Also controversial. And he says things such as: He predicts, apparently seriously, [...] »

The Liberal Democrats are setting up a policy working group looking at information technology and in particular its implication for intellectual property. There will be consultation sessions at the party's conferences this autumn and in spring 2011, followed then by a policy paper to be debated at the autumn 2011 conference. Here's the consultation paper [...] »