The war on my screen and in my head and in my heart
A very personal post about the war on Ukraine.
All posts filed under: Musings
Because everyone is entitled to my opinion.
I’m going to help the internet to evolve
After a long cold lonely winter, I'm delighted to join Scotland's own MaidSafe as their Head of Policy and Governance.
The speculative fiction novel I want to read this year
Something I read in the news inspired this prompt for a story about open source communities and the game of politics. Perhaps you'll be the one to write it. Or stop it from ever happening.
Data is political. Ask a Glaswegian.
COP26 has brought a groundbreaking technical innovation to town, for two weeks.
Postcard from a Challenger Kid
Sometimes age verification is an insult.
On silence
I began thinking about what might happen after today and this is what I have to say.
A natter on regulations, freedom of expression, and open source software
My friend Morten Rand-Hendriksen and I chatted about legislative threats to freedom of expression, and their potential impacts on open source software communities and projects.
On data rights, immigration, privilege, power, and the shit life throws at you
A personal memoir on what it feels like when your everyday life becomes a battleground over data rights, immigration, privilege, and power.
Political Geography and the Internet: the view from 1999
Here's what we trainee diplomats were getting to grips with at the turn of the millennium.
Why Generation X will save the web
Politicians want to regulate the internet as if a handful of companies are the open web. Why? Because for their young policy staffers, that's the only web they've ever known.
The world’s most dangerous tech project
It might be yours.
How to create a world as age appropriate as apple pie
A true story about what happens when "age appropriate" is allowed to become a subjective and politicised decision about how information is filtered to the young people who need it the most.