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BT sent customers' details unencrypted to ACS:Law http://bit.ly/bzq4VQ (via @superglaze) # European Commission's voluntary EU #lobbying register "wildly inaccurate": http://euobserver.com/9/30910 (via @WhosLobbying) # OUT-LAW: Law firm ACS:Law could face first £500,000 data leak fine http://bit.ly/cRK8fN (via @lawtweets) # "W3G Conference – like Geography only cooler" http://bit.ly/9OtAvq blogpost by @Geodiscussion #w3g #w3gconf # What is local […]

MIT: Erroneous Reports of Possible OCW Paywall Appear in News Media http://bit.ly/bdb0Qe # A good day at #w3g A bit like geography, but cooler #

Pew Research study: US media coverage of technology news http://www.journalism.org/node/22197 # Journalism in the Age of Data http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/ is also a fine piece of programme making # a thoughtful and riveting presentation on the state of datajournalism http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/ (ht @datastore ) (via @emilybell) # This is a news website article about a scientific paper http://bit.ly/bCrRGV […]

Android security model is inadequate, and it needs a firewall http://j.mp/cdfbxR (via @newsycombinator) # Smart piece by Jean-Louis Gassée on mobiles, operating systems and the clusterf^*k problem http://bit.ly/dkK407 # Terence Davies Of Time and the City on BBC 4 22.30 tonight http://www.oftimeandthecity.com/ #

Good article by @Robert_Booth in Guardian on #TwitterJokeTrial http://bit.ly/dqFd6r (via @davidallengreen) # w3g conference at Stratford on 28th feat @steveC #OSM @osbornec #ITOworld http://www.w3gconf.com/ #w3gconf #

NESTA make it local winners http://nestamakeitlocal.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/the-winners/ #

Why BBC is increasingly unlikely to report well on climate change http://jr.ly/4zk5 (via @BoraZ @jayrosen_nyu) # Solicitor wins gagging order in website case – The Independent http://bit.ly/9m797J [UK] #defamation (via @Preiskel @LawandLit) # A blind user reviews the iPhone: http://bit.ly/auoq4d (via @AlbertoNardelli) # Report "Making investigative journalism work: business models for investigative media" http://markleehunter.free.fr/ #picnic10 […]

Timeflow – tool for analysing (and cleaning?) time/datestamped events/event data http://bit.ly/bbkHJS #datajourn #ddj (via @psychemedia) # Sale of the century? Er no. Mike Whitby ventures off-piste again http://twurl.nl/jsg2sc (via @annablackaby @birminghampost) # Guardian: Birmingham council leader denies sale of key city assets http://bit.ly/90ScsX # RT @estatesgazette: Brum Council open to bids from Middle Eastern funds […]

How social media have changed the game for documentary filmmaking http://j.mp/9zsKB9 (via @NiemanLab) # Does your Government (and thus you) actually own its data? – http://bit.ly/bvSwqU #opendata (via @glynmoody) # Congratulations @paulbradshaw on joining City University http://tinyurl.com/26g76px # RT @lod2project: Official Press Release: LOD2 Project Launch – #LOD2 http://bit.ly/aQ4gxV (via @johnlsheridan) #Linkedopendata # EU commission […]

Kitchen Confidential by Antony Bourdain is the best book I've read on management # So You Wanna Be a Chef – Anthony Bourdain http://j.mp/cZ0Rsk (via @newsycombinator) # Guardian: Scientists prune list of world's plants http://bit.ly/auIMTx #taxonomy # How the Semantic Web changes the way the BBC thinks about information architecture: http://bit.ly/cDbX1U (via @zbeauvais) #