• Mrs Obama goes to the Opera…

    I work about 300 metres away from the Opera House in Covent Gardens. Mrs Obama and other spouses of the G20 leaders have gone to the Opera. I found it very difficult to park my motorcycle today because the streets were blocked off. They will be there until 2PM. You might catch a glimpse near…

  • My Media is bigger than Your Media…

    The sound track did it for me on this one…

  • G20: The alternative summit will go ahead

    (If this went ahead; I couldn’t find it. I rode my motorcycle from Covent Gardens through the City and all the way to the jaded modernist dream of the Docklands to the University of East London (via getting lost around the mammoth Excel Centre). But when I finally found the campus, nestled between a ‘freeway’…

  • ‘Database state’ report

    An interesting new report has recently been released from a senior researcher, Ian Brown,  from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) .  It charts the cost and scale of data collection and the methods used in data preservation and maintenance.  As listed on the OII web site; the report has also been receiving a lot of…

  • Live (ish) G20 protests…

    Twitter news on G20 logistics…(link) Also, check out the Guardian’s Blog (link) Indymedia London (link)

  • Alternative London Summit (Press Release)

    Apparently the management of the University of East London have been trying to prevent an alternative to the London G20 Summit from going ahead (the University is in fact closed for 2 days).  But the event will go ahead as planned. Here is a Press Release from the Summit’s web site. Some of the speakers…