Without trying particularly hard, I seem to have turned OGN8 into Online Music OGN. All right, I did book Ben Walker, geek troubadour to do a turn prior to the speakers.
Here's a short, striking, and oddly cute film about why you should care about taking urgent action to prevent climate change, and how small increases in temperature can lead to lifestyle-shattering, and life-endangering, changes in the world's ecosystem:
From Greenpeace comes Coalfinger, the dangerous megalomaniac trying to open coal-fired power stations across the world:
With any luck I'll be talking to Danny and Lou on BBC Oxford tomorrow at half noon, about the phenomenon that is Oxford Geek Nights. It's all rather good timing in one sense, given that OGN10 is happening tomorrow evening, but terrible timing in another sense, given that I have to get ready for OGN10 happening tomorrow evening.
All of this is subject to change, of course.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is quoted by the mainstream media all the time, such is the impact of the studies and publications it funds, produces and reports on.
Some six months ago I received a newsletter from a respected company, active in open source, and providing graded services including a reliable free one. However, the first paragraph of that newsletter (ostensibly written by the CEO) said:
We hope you are enjoying the — service for all your — needs. We are passionate about our customer promise: to provide the best online — solution in the market with a focus on ease of use, personalization, security, and privacy.
Those of you who subscribe to the Oxford Geek Nights Google group hopefully need no reminder that Oxford Geek Night 13 is on Wednesday 15 July.
Wow. Well, now it's out in the open and I can tell you all. Oxford Geek Night 13 on Wednesday 15 July will be co-sponsored by the Guardian Open Platform.
The Guardian's Open Platform and Datastore work has really put them at the forefront of modern media.
It's our BBC. It's your BBC. Tell the Trust what you want.
Everyone in a particular demographic will now know that the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, has announced a plan to close two of the most Reithian of radio stations, 6Music and the Asian Network. If you're up in arms about these closures, you can still do something about it.