Bill Thompson

"As economic libertarians, these people believe that markets should be free, formed by the rational actions of rational agents - who need only to be provided with perfect information about goods and se…"

"Bill Thompson's blog"

"...there is a strong case to be made for getting someone senior, with a title to match, who can knock heads together about e-government and how it is done properly..."

"The enlightenment idea of privacy is breaking apart under the strain of new technologies, social tools and the emergence of the database state. We cannot hold back the tide, but we can use it as an op…"

"Fortunately for them, in the hyperlinked world it is not necessary to airbrush dissenters out of the group photograph. You can simply wait for Google's PageRank to promote the ideas the A-list find ac…"

"Whatever analogy we choose, one thing is clear - any group with influence needs people outside that group who will criticise it. In the real world of politics and society, journalists do that - proper…"

"These people are not quite an aristocracy. Perhaps they are simply the blogeoisie , a dominant class in network society. Or it may be simpler to think of blogs as a feudal system, with respect and lin…"