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Helping machines translate: An interview with Dr Bill Byrne Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Paul Appleyard under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Gareth Mitchell (Guest), Dr Bill Byrne (Guest)

26 July 2011

Translating isn't easy for machines - but the FAUST project is using the community to try and help them get better at it. Bill Byrne...  Read more : Helping machines translate: An interview with Dr Bill Byrne

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Click special: Openness and personalisation Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Alex E Promios under CC-BY licence

By Dr Tony Hirst (The Open University), Gareth Mitchell (Guest)

15 July 2011

Eli Pariser suggests that the more we can tailor the web to our liking, the more we start to engage only with people whose outlook...  Read more : Click special: Openness and personalisation

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A domain of one's own: Will non-Latin web addresses make the internet less Western facing? Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image John Kannenberg under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Gareth Mitchell (Guest), George Victor (Guest)

23 June 2011

Egypt was one of the first countries to roll out web URLs which used local characters - an online revolution which coincided with a social...  Read more : A domain of one's own: Will non-Latin web addresses make the internet less Western facing?

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Privacy in a connected world Featuring: audio, William Attard Mccarthy | Dreamstime.com

By Gareth Mitchell (Guest), Professor Jeff Jarvis (Guest), Andrew Keen (Guest)

19 April 2011

Unless you live in a cave, your privacy will be affected by digital technology. Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen agree on this; the question is...  Read more : Privacy in a connected world

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The Vision Machine vision Featuring: audio, The Open University

By Greg Pak (Guest), Gareth Mitchell (Guest)

24 March 2011

Greg Pak opened his Vision Machine graphic novel up to the community to remix. He explains to Gareth Mitchell why...  Read more : The Vision Machine vision

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I'm your recreator, Luke Featuring: audio, J Garrattley under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Casey Pugh (Guest), Gareth Mitchell (Guest)

24 March 2011

By slicing up Star Wars into pieces and inviting people to rework those scenes, Casey Pugh did more than just rework the movie.  Read more : I'm your recreator, Luke

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The squeezed midlist Featuring: audio, onkel_wart under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Gareth Mitchell (Guest), Andrew Keen (Guest)

24 March 2011

Andrew Keen worries that while blockbusters and cottage publishers will be unharmed by the march to digital, interesting stuff in the middle might struggle to...  Read more : The squeezed midlist

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Is openness in the digital space killing creativity? Digital Planet at SXSWi 2011 Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image luca.sartoni under CC-BY-SA licence

By Gareth Mitchell (Guest), June Cohen (Guest), Andrew Keen (Guest), Steve Rosenbaum (Guest), Jamillah Knowles (Guest)

18 March 2011

In an extended version of the Digital Planet debate at SXSWi 2011, our panel discuss creativity in an open, connected world.  Read more : Is openness in the digital space killing creativity? Digital Planet at SXSWi 2011

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A tour of Campus Party Brasil 2011 Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Alex Dunne under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Ben Hammersley (Guest), Gareth Mitchell (Guest)

08 February 2011

What brings a group of digital dignitaries and electronic activists together? Ben Hammersely shows Digital Planet's Gareth Mitchell round Campus Party Brasil.  Read more : A tour of Campus Party Brasil 2011

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Free as in freedom, not as in price Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Fernando Cavalcanti / Campus Party under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Jon "Maddog" Hall (Guest), Gareth Mitchell (Guest)

08 February 2011

Linux champion Jon "Maddog" Hall loves the exchange of ideas - and the pace - of Campus Party. He tells Gareth Mitchell why 'free' is...  Read more : Free as in freedom, not as in price

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A domain of one's own: Will non-Latin web addresses make the internet less Western facing?

Comment posted by zz922078

14 May 2012

wonderful piece of information, This is just the kind of information that i had been looking for, i'm already your rss reader now and i would regularly watch out for the new posts, once again hats... Read more : A domain of one's own: Will non-Latin web addresses make the internet less Western facing?

Click special: Openness and personalisation

Comment posted by om2245

19 Jul 2011

Hi John, If you would allow us to pass your e-mail address onto the production team at the BBC they will reply to your query directly. Please don't post your address here, instead e-mail us at... Read more : Click special: Openness and personalisation

Click special: Openness and personalisation

Comment posted by zz800953

18 Jul 2011

I have subscribed to click for probably six months. Its very entertaining. When the episode describing filter bubbles played I wanted to participate. Ran the search, got a screen shot. Nowhere to... Read more : Click special: Openness and personalisation

Free as in freedom, not as in price

Comment posted by ajh59

11 Mar 2011

I think that references in the first part of the interview are made in the sense of 'little-o' open source software as in the "open" availability of the source code, rather than in the sense of... Read more : Free as in freedom, not as in price

Free as in freedom, not as in price

Comment posted by zz758161

09 Mar 2011

So many things wrong with this interview, I'll pick at various points. The Open Source movement spawned from the Free Software movement. Think of the latter as a development methodology and free... Read more : Free as in freedom, not as in price

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