del.icio.us links for 13-14 April 2009

April 14, 2009 in Bookmarks

links for 2009-04-14

• ‘Starlog’ magazine: R.I.P., and thanks for all the geekery
  Very sad to see one of the magazines of my childhood fold like this.
  (tags: media magazines starlog)
• Twitter – the new police tool
  Now the US police are issuing bulletins via Twitter.
  (tags: twitter crime polcie)
• Finding Utility in the Jumble of Tweeted Thoughts
  The New York Times on Twitter as a useful tool – including this weekend’s AmazonFAIL outbreak.
  (tags: amazon socialmedia twitter)
• Facebook and Twitter ‘make us bad people’
  They ruin your moral compass, it has been claimed: fast-paced modern media, such as Facebook updates and news feeds on Twitter, do not give us time to reflect and could make us indifferent to human suffering, according to a group of researchers. Who really should have thought more about this themselves …
  (tags: socialmedia twitter facebook)
• Britain is becoming a more fearful place – and the economy is paying the price
  I’ve been concerned for sometime now that politicians of all hues and in many countries are playing the ‘fear game’ to get and keep power. It’s what made Obama’s campaign of hope so refreshing. Fear might be a successful political device, but finally we’re seeing the cost it makes – any why politicians on all sides should do their damnedest not to rely on it. They should be improving and inspiring the people, not browbeating them and making them afraid.
  (tags: ukpolitics fear bigbrother)
• Mass arrests have no place in a democratic country
  The police arrest 114 people – not for committing an offence, but for allegedly planning to do so. In other words, they were arrested pre-emptively. How close is this to drifting into a totalitarian/police state?
  (tags: ukpolitics bigbrother crime)

links for 2009-04-13

• Public Sector Information Unlocking Service
  OPSI get into the custom API service.
  (tags: api publicsector opsi)