Bill Thompson
Articles by Bill Thompson
Results 1 to 10 of 15
SciTech
Swords drawn in Pirate Bay
- 30 April 2009
- 1 comment
In a landmark case, the founders of a Swedish file-sharing website have been convicted of copyright infringement. This is not the end for internet piracy but the start of a new phase of battle
SciTech
Bill the minister...
- 04 July 2008
- 1 comment
A version of Bill Thompson's speech to the New Media Awards when he was asked to step into the shoes of a minister - albeit briefly...
SciTech
The bustle of participation
- 05 June 2008
- 1 comment
There are disturbing parallels between the world Samuel Johnson describes and our use of the new generation of social tools
Media
Make sure you can speak freely
- 22 April 2008
- 2 comments
Online groups should try to maintain their own sites rather than piggy-backing off other sites like Facebook.com because that gives them more control over their content.
SciTech
Green communities
- 15 April 2008
- 1 comment
Websites that give green suggestions can make a social difference because these online communities show that there is a shared interest in "saving the planet."
Media
Digital democracy and new media
- 09 April 2008
Our blogger Bill Thompson is back again for another year of New Media Awards. In his first blog he considers that after 10 years of "new media" we now live between the offline and online worlds.
Games
Live the world, don't tell the story
- 13 December 2007
The games industry doesn't need to model itself on the film industry, argues Bill Thompson
SciTech
I fear my social networks will be data mined
- 30 July 2007
Bill Thompson is concerned about online public services in a web 2.0 world
Ideas
Suppose the government really got IT
- 31 July 2006
Successive prime ministers have experimented with new media, but how would things change if Whitehall really got the net revolution?
