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		<title>Crackberry and Surveillance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a recent spate of reports regarding Research In Motion and their difficulties with various surveillance-oriented regimes (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan) demanding access to the emails sent from the famous and popular Blackberry mobile communications system. The most recent addition to the countries demanding such access is India. I find it interesting that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ludicrous Price on Academic Book (and Open Access)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 01:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across a book which I thought would be useful for one of the courses I&#8217;m teaching at Meiji University: Information Society. It&#8217;s a 2009 book called The Information Society and it includes the same kind of approach I&#8217;m using, with a historical background and various sociological, technological, economic and other facets explored. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outside the Influence of Heaven and Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 05:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In three pieces of fiction involving heaven and hell (relatively) recently, I&#8217;ve come across a similar kind of concept: the idea of a place outside the influecen of heaven and hell. Is this a new meme bubbling up in fiction or is it just an old trope I&#8217;ve not recognised before? The three in question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Lost Without Translation&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 05:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had my first Times Higher Education article &#8220;Lost Without Translation&#8221; published (I&#8217;ve been in the letters pages very often before but never had an article in there). Here&#8217;s the text: As I approach a new job in a Japanese university, I&#8217;m constantly receiving material from the institution in Japanese, including announcements of induction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;Taking the First Amendment Global&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.a-cubed.info/?p=214</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 04:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects of High Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Ignatius, one of the Washington Post Writers Group, recently wrote an article (widely syndicated under different headlines) on The case for spreading press freedom around the world, in support of Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University&#8216;s call for a global &#8220;First Amendment&#8221; (i.e. a global guarantee of freedom of speech, imposed by the US). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abuse of Parliamentary Process #DEBILL</title>
		<link>http://blog.a-cubed.info/?p=207</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a-cubed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a clear abuse of the parliamentary process and a travesty of democracy, the Digital Economy Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday, a process which now allows the final passage of the bill to be pushed through &#8220;wash-up&#8221;. The reason this is a travesty is that the wash-up process is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Tweets Have No Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be sung to Where the Streets Have No Name by U2 (or the Pet Shop Boys cover version): I wanna blog I want to speak I wanna see through the fog That makes us all weak I wanna reach out And touch the flame Where the tweets have no name Ha&#8230;ha&#8230;ha&#8230; I want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Apartment in Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After visiting Japan in 2007 for the Worldcon (Nippon 2007) Charlie Stross wrote in his travelblog that Japan had &#8220;got our future, damn it!&#8221;. I&#8217;ve just moved into a new-build apartment in Tokyo and thought I&#8217;d share some initial impressions of up to date living conditions in Tokyo, some of which clearly represent Charlie&#8217;s impression, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music in IKEA in Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://blog.a-cubed.info/?p=195</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a-cubed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to IKEA in Minami Funabashi in Eastern Tokyo yesterday. I kept noticing the music because it seemed like they&#8217;d copied a random selection of music off my media player: Suzanne Vega, Dexy&#8217;s Midnight Runners, and many others. Obviously, I&#8217;m in their target audience. I didn&#8217;t buy anything, though we may get a sofa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HalCon: Blog post about the guest Charlie Stross</title>
		<link>http://blog.a-cubed.info/?p=191</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a-cubed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m part of the committee running HalCon next month in Omiya just North of Tokyo. It&#8217;s a (hopefully annual) bi-lingual Japanese/English SF convention. We&#8217;ve got two guests this year, Charlie Stross from the UK and Ooishi Masaru from Japan. As part of our con online presence we have a blog on which I posted the [...]]]></description>
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