"Tommy Cooper meets hip-hop in a misogynistic road accident": check out Jon Snow interviewing the Goldie Lookin' Chain on Radio 4 Listen Again...

The mistakes of version 1.0: "There are parallels between version 1.0 efforts and political or religious movements. All three employ methods to bring groups of people together, develop a shared belief system, and get them to work towards shared goals."

My MMOG 2005 wishlist: a lot of these seems to be around separating off communities within MMOGs - letting roleplayers roleplay, ignoring annoying players, voting players off...

Mobility is more than J2ME: "When enterprises move to mobility, a key consideration is to preserve existing investment. Fancy flashy J2ME games will not do it."

NTT DoCoMo is liquidating its machine-to-machine unit, and rolling back some of the services it offered into other areas of the group.

This sort of application (dubbed M2M by Nokia) has always interested me - I've noticed over the last 2 years that I get really worked up about the stuff that's so unsexy and unfashionable that it just gets taken for granted as part of our everyday lives, and could fit well into this category.

Orange in particular have been talking about M2M for a few years now, but beyond announcements of call plans devoted to M2M I've not heard much from them about it...

But why are DoCoMo moving away, and can we presume that others will follow their lead? Or is the reason that we hear so little about M2M precisely because it's so un-pressworthy?