I was on the judging panel for the Silicon Agenda Setters 2009 award. We met as a judging panel a few weeks ago, each bringing a long list of nominees, and debating it through. It was all quite fun and I really enjoyed meeting the other panelists (none of whom I’d met before).
Sadly, Steve Jobs [...]

I’ve just agreed to sit on the discussion panel which decides Silicon’s 50 most influential people worldwide in the tech industry. Last year’s page is here. It sounds rather fun - The panel each bring 10 people who they’d like to nominate and we thrash it out around a table. I’ll let you know my [...]

Jakartass has written me an open letter responding to my article in The Guardian.
He rightly points out that I’m writing with a Western perspective, and here our freedom of expression isn’t seriously threatened. I was writing to The Guardian’s print publication readers, but should have remembered that the web readership is much broader.
I think he’s also [...]