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		<title>Good news/bad news on figures for the &#8216;cost&#8217; of filesharing</title>
		<link>http://stevewalker.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/good-newsbad-news-on-figures-for-the-cost-of-filesharing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I looked at an extraordinary claim that the cost of illegal filesharing around £12bn p.a.. John Naughton has just blogged an extract from a parliamentary committee discussing Mandelson&#8217;s proposals to cut off internet from persistent downloaders and the people they live with. Here, the government is using the figure of £200m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevewalker.wordpress.com&blog=1162657&post=151&subd=stevewalker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PlanningAlerts.com closed down</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I got the following email from the MySociety.Org-hosted PlanningAlerts.com, which has been closed down because it can&#8217;t afford to use the postcode system now that Royal Mail want payment of £4,000 p.a.  licence fees. I didn&#8217;t realise that the postcode system is private property&#8230; There are attempts to get a free licence for non-profit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevewalker.wordpress.com&blog=1162657&post=147&subd=stevewalker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Velletri agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I was preparing some introductory comments for a public talk on the theme of ‘Digital Futures’ that the OU in the North West hosted. Given the theme, and this year being the 40th anniversary of the OU, I wanted to mention some other suitable anniversaries. Among them, and rather less celebrated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevewalker.wordpress.com&blog=1162657&post=142&subd=stevewalker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curious sign of changing times&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://stevewalker.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/curious-sign-of-changing-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent an enjoyable day today at Headingley watching the Roses match. The academic publishing industry is currently in a state of flux as new forms of scholarly publishing emerge: institutional repositories, open access journals and academics&#8217; blogs, but it still surprised me to see this advert/sponsorship at the game. Who are they trying to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevewalker.wordpress.com&blog=1162657&post=135&subd=stevewalker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware Carphone Warehouse&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://stevewalker.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/beware-carphone-warehouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little disgruntled-customer social action here&#8230; This may be old news to many, but I was surprised at quite the level of mendacity in a high street shop.
I just attempted to buy a new mobile from Carphone Warehouse in Leeds. Having identified the phone I wanted, the sales rep offered the phone free if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevewalker.wordpress.com&blog=1162657&post=132&subd=stevewalker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital futures: perspectives and possibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 8th July, the Open University Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology is hosting a public talk and panel discussion with Prof. John Naughton (Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology); Dr. Adrian Woolard (BBC Norther Lab) and Shaun Fensom (Chair, Mancester Digital), at the City of Manchester Stadium. If you&#8217;d like to come, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevewalker.wordpress.com&blog=1162657&post=129&subd=stevewalker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>£12bn cost of one file sharing server. Mmmm&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://stevewalker.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/12bn-cost-of-one-file-sharing-server-mmmm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 10:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s Guardian reported that a study conducted by researchers at University College London for the &#8216;Strategic Board for Intellectual Property Policy&#8216; had found a cost to the British economy of illegal file downloading as £12bn. Going to the UCL report, the following appears to be the source of this claim:
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		<title>Digital Britain in Yorkshire</title>
		<link>http://stevewalker.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/digital-britain-in-yorkshire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening I went to an event organised by Yorkshire Forward billed as a consultation on Carter&#8217;s Digital Britain report (according to Sam Sharps, who has been working with Carter on the report, they are still open to ideas despite the end of the formal consultation period on March 12th, but he may just have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevewalker.wordpress.com&blog=1162657&post=122&subd=stevewalker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SuperMayor visits Skinningrove, and other stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet more of Steve Thompson&#8217;s escapades in Second Life, this time on YouTube:

and related videos &#8211; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGnb_8isy1E
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		<title>Donating online &#8211; limits of usability?</title>
		<link>http://stevewalker.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/donating-online-limits-of-usability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Jacob Neilsen&#8217;s &#8216;Alertbox&#8217; &#8220;Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities&#8221; summarises some research of his company&#8217;s looking at the usability of online donations (thanks to John Naughton for the link). The article highlights difficulties that his test users had in deciding which organisations to donate money to. The article may be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevewalker.wordpress.com&blog=1162657&post=109&subd=stevewalker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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