Techlog

“Welcome to the Number10 YouTube channel. This is where you’ll find exclusive films and features from Downing Street and the British Prime Minister.”

Sample podcast on Remembrance Sunday.

Another good example of how technology plays (or may play) a role in political elections and policy. I find this funny without being party political (though there is an implied political bias?) but I simply remind myself of the perilous position of many economies thanks to the bad practices in the banking sector (well documented and indisputable?) and I noted that Mark Kermode (film critic on the BBC) observed that Robert Peston (esteemed BBC business/economics journalist) said that Michael Moore essentially correct in his criticism of the banking sector.

Both funny and informative..?

Warning - contains swearing but only words I’ve seen printed in The Guardian and Private Eye. This is a satire but one cannot help but wonder how close to the mark it actually is? Satire is part of a rich tradition of political activity and a movie like The Thick Of It is closely elated to sites like MyDavidCameron. It may not be to everyone’s taste but the simple fact I can pull this into the blog is a reminder of how technology has crept into the political arena.

From The Independent newspaper “Airbrushed and changed: web users parody David Cameron campaign poster”. There is even a site specially dedicated to the resulting parodies at http://www.mydavidcameron.com/ including this one of Shadow Chancellor George Osborne.

Someone (Labour MP Sion Simon) on Sky TV after spoofing David “Web” Cameron. To quote from his Wikipedia entry “On 12 October 2006 controversy erupted over a YouTube spoof by Simon of David Cameron’s video blog, in which, pretending to be Cameron, he offered people one of his children and the opportunity to sleep with his wife. This led to expressions of disgust from both parties with the stunt being called “tasteless”.[5][6] Traffic for Cameron’s video blog increased tenfold after the controversy. In an interview on Sky News that same day, he described David Cameron’s attempts to reach out to the youth culture as “shallow” and “pathetic”.[7][dead link] The video was removed on 13 October by his friend Tom Watson MP, who he described as a “proppa blogga”.[8]” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%B4n_Simon)

Oh and a Twitter gaffe?

Sion Simon on They Work For You site.

Talk by Lawrence “Larry” Lessig to Italian Parliament on topic of Internet Freedom (and by extension intellectual property, copyright, creativity and economic issues).

About 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute…

DHS Cyber Threat to the U.S.

Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center (HITRAC)

SOURCE:

Threat Level 4
( Paradigm Intel )

Religious Fanatic, terrorist, Uber Criminal

High order skills

Well financed

Target Internet nodes

Use Bot herds

Super DDos kind of attacks

Detectable impossible to trace
Bring down the WWW

Motive:

End of Gobalization,

Expand the Gap away 

from the core

Black Mail

Terrorism

Gerald

Internet Anthropologist

Tactical Internet Systems analyst.

Backgrounder:

http://warintel.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-cyber-attack-on-usa-asterisk.html

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By Gerald Internet Anthropologist, Competitive Intelligence services.
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Political Paradigm Intel.

By Gerald Internet Anthropologist, Competitive Intelligence services.
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