We should strongly resist building architectures of control in public service. They empower the petty, and promote the bureaucratic over the human. This is why I oppose what the BBC is doing with its content protection. The humane solution is not to regulate these architectures, but to remove them. But, first up, another architecture of [...]
I'm Ben Griffiths: an escapee of web 1.0 and web 2.0 start-ups; a programmer; developer; architect; sometime consultant; team leader; agile exponent.
I live in Greenwich, London.
You can find some of my web projects at monstermischief.com.
I'm an atheist and anti-theist, a liberal, a lefty and my hobbies include extreme beard-topiary and real ale.
Oh, and recently, I'm a very proud dad.