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Read me first

Technology Guardian columns from Nick Carr, Seth Finkelstein and Andrew Brown.
  • Charlie's Country

    Charlie's Country review — slow indictment of a colonialist relationship

    Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil's latest collaboration explores the tension between white law and Indigenous people

  • The battle is on against Facebook and co to regain control of our files

    Bruce Schneier

    Bruce Schneier: Our use of social networking, as well as iPhones and Kindles, relinquishes control of how we delete files – we need that back

  • People understand risks – but do security staff understand people?

    Bruce Schneier

    Bruce Schneier: Natural human risk intuition deserves respect – even when it doesn't help your security team

  • A spot of schoolboy wish-fulfilment

    Review: Unplayable by Simon Rae
    If I am any judge, young boys will read this book and like it a lot, says Nicholas Lezard

  • Facebook

    Facebook should compete on privacy, not hide it away

    Bruce Schneier

    Bruce Schneier: From a business perspective, social networking sites don't want their members to exercise their privacy rights very much

  • The moral quandary of involving Wikipedia in online 'censorship'

    Seth Finkelstein

    The suppression of news about a reporter's disappearance saw the New York Times and Wikipedia work together – but raises issues about control of information

  • Wireless

    Review: Wireless by Charles Stross
    This omits several of Stross's strong recent stories, but the best stories here are very good, says Eric Brown

  • Andrew Brown

    Google isn't making us dumb – or smart. That's the problem

    Andrew Brown

    Andrew Brown: Far from dumbing us down, the constant ebb and flow of information on the internet is forcing us to change our habits

  • Raising the cost of paperwork errors will improve accuracy

    Bruce Schneier

    Bruce Schneier: Paperwork errors are part of the modern world but could raising the cost of mistakes help to rid us of them?

  • Far too often, new media serves up popularity without accuracy

    Seth Finkelstein

    Seth Finkelstein: Check your serving of online news for factual accuracy before you give it a taste

  • Andrew Brown

    Why buying secondhand should become part of the PC process

    Andrew Brown

    Buying a secondhand PC shouldn't leave you searching for the processing power you want

  • Be careful when you come to put your trust in the clouds

    Bruce Schneier

    Read me first: Cloud computing may represent the future of computing but users still need to be careful about who is looking after their data, says Bruce Schneier

  • Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia

    Do commercial pressures outweigh artistic ideals at Wikipedia?

    Seth Finkelstein

    Read me first: When do commercial pressures affect ideals? Testing that proposition was an unexpected result of the 'Wikipedia Art' project, says Seth Finkelstein

  • Andrew Brown

    It's a puzzle: why don't more of us burst the bubble of online ads?

    Andrew Brown

    Users will install software to do something fun and worthwhile, but they won't change software just to make computers less annoying

  • We shouldn't poison our minds with fear of bioterrorism

    Bruce Schneier

    Terrorists attacking our food supply is a nightmare scenario that has been given new life during the recent swine flu outbreak.

  • Twitter bird

    Twitter is a sucker's game that only serves the needs of a tiny elite

    Seth Finkelstein

    People aren't being connected by the 'real-time messaging service', they're being bundled up and sold

  • Andrew Brown

    The Sun ain't gonna shine on OpenOffice any more

    Andrew Brown

    The takeover of Sun by Oracle should concentrate our minds on what open-source software means, says Andrew Brown

  • How the great Conficker panic hacked into human credulity

    Bruce Schneier

    Conficker's April Fool's joke is a good case study on how we think about risks, says Bruce Schneier

  • Shutdown of Wikia Search proves empty rhetoric of collaboration

    Seth Finkelstein

    The shutdown of Wikia Search – an attempt to apply Wikipedia-style ideas to create an open source, ­commercial search engine – came as no surprise to informed ­observers

  • Madeleine Peyroux: Bare Bones

    One of the few singers who can make me keep replaying a track just to hear her intone one word, says John Fordham

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