Would you like to buy that sir?
That’s what the RFID tags will be asking shoppers innocently carrying around stuff in Seattle from this week.
3G backlash?
One has to wonder if there will be a backlash against video mobiles if ‘happy slapping‘ carries on.
Come to a roundtable on blogging
I’m chairing a roundtable discussion on blogging next week. Anyone can come, so long as they are a paid-for member of Netimperative.
Question: Why do we need the blog entrepreneurs, exactly?
Thing is, all we need is an advertising system (subject to competition), an e-commerce system (subject to competition) and some kind of loose financial arrangement (which doesn’t involve copyright). Outside of that, bloggers should be free to move around as the deals take them. That’s the point… Maybe Battelle gets this. Maybe not.
The best election analysis
As usual, Polly Toynbee talks the most sense: “This is still Labour’s third great win with a majority that would have seemed handsome enough to previous Labour governments. When the votes are combined with the Lib Dems’ strongest showing since its alliance with the SDP in 1983, there is no major rightward shift. So that social democratic wind of change in 1997 was no temporary symptom of momentary Tory failure.
It’s over
It looks like the landslides are over for Labour. Meantime, The blogs rattled on. The BBC one was pretty thin. The Guardian’s better. My favourites gadgets were on the BBC site, especially the swingometer – aiding ready reckoning on the swing as the numbers came in. Watching TV, The BBC had the better line-up of pundits I think, but Sky’s coverage was graphically intersting, if a bit over the top