I’ve had to keep this under wraps for quite a while, but I’m incredibly excited to announce that Technolotics will be returning in the Autumn, as a prime time television show on RTE Two. We were approached by the channel last October after submitting an independent production proposal, and commissioned to produce 22 episodes to be broadcast weekly. Jason, Francis and I have spent the past six months jetting furiously back and forth across the Atlantic to NY and San Francisco, interviewing web 2.0 luminaries like Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis, …

After re-listening to many of the excellent podcasts from 2005′s Accelerating Change conference, available from IT conversations; I got a hankering to read Charlie Stross’s highly recommended, and Hugo award nominated, post singularity novel Accelerando. The book is available to download under a Creative Commons license. Or rather, the book was available for download. Accellerando.org is down, and although the site itself can be accessed for now via Google’s cache, the PDF of Stross’s novel is unavailable. So too is the site which originally seeded the novels torrent, and the …