William Heath’s blog

Update: please read this first

Hurrah. Our offer to buy somewhere to live has been accepted. Onwards and upwards, with an incredible release of energy, ideas, thoughts, decisions, things to do, mixed with more than a dash of anxiety.

Cheers for the pictures Steiney!

A former colleague of mine sends me some bizarre spam…UPDATE: it seems it wasnt him at all – see comments below

There’s a lot that’s bugging me at the moment:
- clause 152 of the proposed Coroners and Justice Bill
- absurd EU copyright term extension plans and the mixed quality of my MEPs, from brilliant to fruitcake benefit fraudsters (see below)
- alleged corrupt payments by Experian (which is paid a slice of my council tax) to [...]

So Charles Moore wont pay his licence fee until Jonathan Ross is sacked. He calls Ross an oaf and “the big mouth of an age with nothing worth saying.”…

Got hauled over to a Nesta “Webank” session on future business models in Internet banking. The Zopa posse were there, currently actually arranging loans to borrowers and offering over 9% to lenders last year. Kubera Money promises to implement an online version of the venerable tradition of Roscas: tiny savings and loan collectives with very [...]

Oh wow. Check out this timescale. Eight thirty this morning I get an email from RMS (always a pleasure; generally also a challenge) about the ORG video on sound copyright. He’s bothered its on Youtube and not in the open Ogg format for which (among so many other things) he campaigns tirelessly
When my speeches are [...]

The new nominee for the crucial job of ICO is Christopher Graham from the ASA: (from OutLaw)
The head of the advertising watchdog will become the new Information Commissioner in June, pending Parliamentary approval. Christopher Graham has been chosen as the Ministry of Justice’s preferred candidate for the job.

It feels like it’s going to be a very long time before I’m prepared to spend money on anything from Israel. And of course that includes anything produced under Israeli control in the illegally occupied territories. I dont normally have much time for Naomi Klein but she puts it quite well here. Question is – [...]

We love the blogosphere; it’s full of great ideas, insights and humour. The boring bits are dull, of course. But there’s a distinct part of it that bugs me. I think I call it the “Blogosphere of Hate”.
A site like Guido is full of new gossip and energy. It’s hugely successful. But there’s something tawdry [...]