Bill Thompson

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Swords drawn in Pirate Bay

  • 30 April 2009
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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

Bill the minister...

  • 04 July 2008
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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...

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

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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?

It's a fine mess we're in

  • 25 July 2005

Soundbytes on the World Wide Web

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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Will China rule the world?

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