Object permanence

Workplace email spying; Record label internet death penalty; News should be cheap, free and chaotic; “Jughead”.

THIS SATURDAY (Jul 11), I’ll be at the Idler Festival in LONDON.

#25yrsago The Extent of Systematic Monitoring of Employee E-mail and Internet Use https://web.archive.org/web/20010711204804/http://www.privacyfoundation.org/workplace/technology/extent.asp

#20yrsago BPI: We should be able to cut off your Internet https://memex.craphound.com/2006/07/10/bpi-we-should-be-able-to-cut-off-your-internet/

#15yrsago Shirky: Cheap, free, chaotic news is better than all-the-same news businesses https://web.archive.org/web/20110711165517/http://shirky.com/weblog/2011/07/we-need-the-new-news-environment-to-be-chaotic/

#10yrsago New Zealanders raise millions to buy beach and donate it to the public https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36759321

#10yrsago Jughead: Zdarsky’s reboot is funny, fannish, and freaky https://memex.craphound.com/2016/07/10/jughead-zdarskys-reboot-is-funny-fannish-and-freaky/

#5yrsago Biden’s Right to Repair will include electronics, too https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/10/unnixing-the-fix/#r2r-plus-plus