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It occurred to me as I was doing my last blog post about Patrick Vande Walle also going public with his NomCom application for the ICANN Board that people either won’t want to, or won’t be bothered to email me to say they are also applying, and so I have found the best solution: […]

Good news. Another person has stood up and made their ICANN NomCom application public. (I did so yesterday.)
Patrick Vande Walle is a civil servant at the EC, but don’t let that put you off: Patrick has been a close follower of the Internet and an active member of ISOC for years. He knows his […]

I think it’s done. I think the NTIA has finally finished posting all the comments in the ICANN inquiry. The final total would appear to be 605, although there are between 10 and 20 resends, so just under 600 comments in total.
The vast majority came in the last few days - see here. Okay, […]

After several weeks’ serious deliberation I have decided to put myself forward to the ICANN Nominating Committee and stand for one of three vacant Board positions in December. I just sent the email.
It is with some nervousness that I have applied, I have to confess. Even if I was fortunate enough to be chosen, […]

Someone at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is having a tedious first day back at work after the weekend.
The deadline for public comments on the MoU that the US government has with ICANN ended on Friday 7 July, and I have been watching the NTIA’s site since to see what people have […]

I have written two stories this week about the NTIA’s public consultation in an effort to get people enthused about their one and only chance to get their voices heard by government.
The first, on The Register was a sort-of call to arms, encouraging people to email the NTIA with their views and/or go through […]

Animal rights group Speak’s behaviour is becoming increasingly bizarre. Actually, to be accurate, the pieces written on its website - almost certainly written by leader Mel Broughton - are becoming increasingly bizarre.

There is a report on the Oxford Encaenia ceremony where five protestors were arrested that reads as if there was a riot on […]

The strangest thing. There is an enormous thunder and rain storm going on - as it has been all night - following a week of unusually hot weather in the UK. So far so normal for a British summer.
What is less usual is that half an hour ago - at 5am to be exact […]

I just seen this through Bobbie Johnson’s blog. It is, apparently, a pictoral representation of my blog. I don’t really get any sense of what it means, but it is rendered in a really pleasing way once you type in your URL. Try it out here.
I like these random artistic things that people occasionally […]

Here is a good example of the media trying to create a story from nothing.
The Net Neutrality debate is getting heated in the US. And since for some reason the UK media is obsessed with anything that happens in the US, newspapers have desperately been trying to draw a parallel between the US and […]