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The Internet Governance Forum is going to be held in just over a week’s time in Athens, and I’m not entirely sure how to make this clear enough but: if you have any interest whatsoever in the future of the Internet, you should take time out to review what happens there.

And you can do precisely [...]

So earlier this week I received not one but two emails offering to sell me back a recently expired domain of mine – back2black.com – for a very reasonable $199.95.
I had decided to let the domain go, and I had never actually put up a site at the domain, so its shows how sophisticated domainers [...]

I can’t remember the route but I ended up at the blog of the head of PR company Edelman and started listening to the YouTube-posted coverage (in ten-minute chunks of course) about their recent conference in London all about blogs.
I was half listening to this, and some bloke from Technorati, while doing other work, when [...]

Five days ago, I noted that ex-MI6 spy Richard Tomlinson had gone AWOL after a last-minute summons to a French court.
He got the order late on a Tuesday to attend court on the Wednesday. The case had been brought against him by the Attorney General here in the UK – and it is no coincidence [...]

I caught a bit of the news at lunch today and they were at Stonehenge talking about the *new* Seven Wonders of the World.
This rang a very vague bell, I remember someone going on about this ages ago – the idea of coming with a new list of seven amazing things in the world. I [...]

I was grabbed after the recent IGF meeting in London by a young bloke who told me he was from some organisation in London that tried to involve and educate about various developing country issues. He wanted to involve “southern” journalists – by which I assumed he meant south-of-Equator – in the IGF.
I told him [...]

Nominet held a meeting over the IGF on Monday which has attracted a fair amount of attention, most of it revolving around Nitin Desai’s remarks at the end, picked up by the BBC.
I have grabbed the audio from the meeting and produced a series of MP3 files which you can download and listen to here. [...]

I’ve finally had it with Google Desktop and deleted it from my machine. I’m also thinking of killing Google Talk. Why? Because the company is spying on me and at the same time screwing up my computer with inferior software.
I think Google has finally done it and become the new evil Microsoft – and I’m [...]

England and Man United footballer Wayne Rooney has won his domain namessake WayneRooney.com at WIPO, although the decision is yet another dodgy one in terms of the domain name rules.
Welsh actor and Everton fan Huw Marshall registered the name back in April 2002 when he saw Rooney in the youth team but never got around [...]

I wrote nearly a month ago about how ex-MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson was defying the UK government by posting a novel that it claims broke the Official Secrets Act on his blog.
I did a piece for The Register, and it was picked up by Slashdot, and it seems that led to lots of visitors to [...]