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Since I’m a professional journalist, and wannabe author, I hate to think that others are more capable of taking the self-same facts and rolling them out more interestingly and coherently than myself. But I am happy to admit that I have been beaten on the information extracted from the US government with respect to […]

The last public meeting before the 46-member Advisory Board of the IGF (Internet Governance Forum) meet for the first time has just ended in Geneva.
Sadly, I couldn’t go, and, even worse, I couldn’t get the live streaming to work despite digging into my computer’s guts and manually making it almost impossible not to work. […]

The company behind the unsuccessful bid for .xxx, ICM Registry, is going to suing the US Department of Commerce later today for access to the information that the DoC pulled out of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act back in November.
This has the potential of becoming a huge issue as the whole […]

I’ve got a feature in The Guardian today about ENUM. What’s ENUM, you say? Well that was certainly one of the problems in writing the feature - no one’s ever bothered to write about it, and so no one outside of a few technical circles has heard of it.
ENUM is basically a way of […]

The people on the advisory board for the Internance Governance Forum (IGF) have just been named. There are 46 of them in the end - far too many really but the governments insisted on having four per region, so it is much bigger than anyone wanted.
I’m glad to see Emily Taylor of Nominet on […]

The archive is back! Thank christ for that. I thought for a while that eight months of blogging had amounted to nowt. Actually, what I thought was that I would just never get around to dealing with the problem and would then give up on it, or I’d have to be ripped off by […]

Okay after an extremely frustrating day yesterday, the blog is starting to come together again. I am pleased to be off Blogware, I always found it quite restrictive. And the trackback problem was getting unbearable. Now I’m on Wordpress which is far more flexible and am starting to find workarounds to lots of glitches.
I […]

As you may have noticed this blog has been offline for nearly 16 hours and there are no posts on it.
This is thanks to a combination of Blogware and my ex-hosts 123-Reg. I hit a 2GB bandwidth limit yesterday yet despite buying an extra 1GB in bandwidth, having made a phonecall and sent an […]

Guy Kewney is a terrific IT journalist and a friend of mine and I feell about laughing when I heard on Saturday that thanks to an enormous cock-up at the BBC, a cab driver waiting for him rather than he appeared on BBC News 24 to talk about the Apple versus Apple lawsuit.
Guy wrote […]

ICANN Board member Susan Crawford has decried the organisation's “low point” in voting against .xxx on Wednesday night in a blog post.
Having been silenced by a motion taken at the same meeting that landed a 48-hour gagging order on all Board members in talking publicly about the decision, Crawford used her own website to […]