Alejandro@Oxford

On Thursday night, I was browsing my profile on Facebook when I spotted that my relationship status was not entirely correct; it said that I was in a relationship with my partner. I consider that being a relationship with someone is a relatively loose bond, it is a bond you can have with a girlfriend, [...]

The amazing lightning success of the Atheist Bus Campaign (read my post, and post on the speed of donations by justgiving – graph underneath), which has so far collected £58,000 in a day and a half and keeps going up, requires some explanation.
An online campaigner has already written about which lessons online campaigners and fundraisers [...]

Tim Berners-Lee has announced the World Wide Web Foundation to
advance One Web that is free and open, to expand the Web’s capability and robustness, and to extend the Web’s benefits to all people on the planet.

Some days ago, a friend of mine made reference to a phenomenon he reckons being quite innovative. He has a friend, let’s call her Mary, who died quite recently. Before dying, Mary had a Facebook profile. Facebook policy is to keep all profiles as long as the owner doesn’t delete it, obviously Mary cannot delete [...]

UPDATE: OII Webcast link
Wednesday, 7 May 2008. Gulbenkian Lecture theatre, Law Faculty, University of Oxford. OII’s Jonathan Zittrain presents his book “The Future of the Internet – and How to Stop It“. As usual, Jonathan (or Z, as some people call him) makes a very effective and entertaining presentation. It is already the third [...]