del.icio.us links for 10-29 June 2009

June 29, 2009 in Bookmarks

links for 2009-06-29

From the Walkman to the iPod
Picking up on a BBC 'review' of a 1980s Walkman by a modern 13-year-old (well worth the read for the march of tech time) and making some much needed balancing points on the BBC's original story.
(tags: bbc guardian walkman ipod technology trends)

Fake David Miliband duo call it quits [...]

iPhone 3GS: Not enough costing far too much

June 10, 2009 in Technology

The new iPhone was announced on Monday. And I’m absolutely delighted with it: because I have no interest in buying one.
I’m delighted because I was half expecting a radical overhaul of the iPhone that would leave my favourite shiny gizmo looking sad and old and dated. I only got it six months ago, and I [...]

del.icio.us links for 1-9 June 2009

June 9, 2009 in Bookmarks

links for 2009-06-09

Government Science Minister engages debate on twitter
Is this the first time that a serving government minister (Lord Drayson) has debated his role and the organisation of government, with random interested parties, on twitter?
(tags: twitter ukgovernment)

Is the iPhone 3GS a rip-off in the UK?
Some good thinking/calculations/analysis of the cost of an iPhone upgrade in [...]

Online government services and zombie press notices

June 2, 2009 in Social Media

links for 2009-06-02
I posted the following item to del.icio.us the other day:

Public in the dark over e-government

But it got swept up into a “tidy up” aggregation of such items and the original post was moved, which broke a link to this page from Public Strategy as a result.
Public Strategy was using the link as a [...]