Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Post Mayan Thoughts

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I need a digital butler slash cleaner slash addiction therapist. Is it possible these days to give up wifi for Lent?
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Best Read Office in the World

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This Saturday, the documentary I made with Vera Frankl about the readers at the British Library is on Radio 4 at 10.30 am. Listen in or catc...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Media is complicated

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Trieste Camden Euston Bologna
Saturday, April 02, 2011

Conscious Culture this week, to April 1

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Anselm Kiefer at White Cube. Durs Grubein at the Southbank. Souce Code at the Everyman. The Happy Thieves, Richard Condon. Delete, Viktor Ma...
Friday, March 04, 2011

Update

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This blog will resume soon. In the meantime here's the MIT Technology Review, archive now available.
Friday, July 23, 2010

The Kind of Photo I Can't Take

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But will really try this time. From Magnum Photos picture of the week. That's Alec Guinness learning his lines. I'd say Richmond, up...
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Long Strange Year

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The past 12 months have been different, to say the least. And this blog has suffered for that. Anyway, for the next few months anything I ma...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Mobile mobility?

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According to new data from ChangeWave Research, both usage and consumer sentiment towards Google's mobile operating system Android has i...
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Is the NYT having its L'Oreal moment?

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New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, acco...
Friday, January 15, 2010

The peasants are revolting

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In his new book, You Are Not a Gadget, musician and avant-garde computer scientist Jaron Lanier examines the downsides to the internet’s fre...

9 million and counting

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A study by a company that helps track pirated digital books estimates that there were 9 million illegal downloads of copyrighted books in th...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Close to the Edge

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The website of the Borders bookshop chain in the UK has stopped taking new orders for books while "the business is in discussion with p...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Films of the Decade (1)

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The Times Top Ten Films of the Decade: Hidden The Bourne Supremacy/Ultimatum No Country For Old Men Grizzly Man Team America Slumdog Million...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

It's Coming

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Google is poised to launch its "buy anywhere, read anywhere" digital books programme Google Editions simultaneously in the US, UK ...
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Now

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NOWISM | “Consumers’ ingrained lust for instant gratification is being satisfied by a host of novel, important (offline and online) real-tim...
Monday, October 12, 2009

"Creative" Commons: after the trust has gone

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Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from i...

Merkel attacks Google aka European politician looks for new Microsoft

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But this was interesting: Merkel also stressed that she doesn't believe that eBooks will ever replace traditional books - though she do...

He Returns: tomorrow (at dusk presumably)

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Thanks to the daily dose from Flavorwire . This authorized sequel picks up 25 years after the classic Dracula, and is based largely on Bram ...

Email is so over, says WSJ

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We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messa...

NHS gets US support, from the UK

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Americans living in the United Kingdom and other European countries have been surprised to see the national health services in their host co...

Kindle: what mobiles? which prices?

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The Kindle is expected to work with AT&T’s wireless network, which they say has the global reach that Amazon needs for its international...

Playing Poker with those Print Things

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There will, I trust, be more like this in the coming months. About time too: The media's response to this device will, I am sure, be neg...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

William Safire: 1929 - 2009 - Three's a Gestalt

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Safire's rule eight for columnists: 8. Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision...
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...in the Springtime; I love Paris in the Fall

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Too good: Last night [September 23] was Paris’s first Literary Death Match , a throw-down organized by Opium magazine where authors read the...

Books and Reading: the new criterion

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The idea that "a book is a place (where readers, sometimes with authors, congregate)" arose out of a series of experiments investi...

Newsweek: sitting on the fence again

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The fact is, all this hysteria has nothing to do with saving the news, or saving jobs. Nor is it about saving democracy, which is what the r...

Paying: News Corps Research says Yes

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In a memo leaked to the Sydney Morning Herald, he says: "News has conducted some audience research here in Australia and in the UK and ...

Books: the dark ages again, so Umberto was right?

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Please grant me a moment to explain. Act I: Google makes secret agreements with libraries to scan all books, calls it “search”, is greeted...

Getting the message out there

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Accompanying Lord Mandelson and Ben Bradshaw’s visit to the BRIT school in Croydon to put the other side of the peer-to-peer file-sharing de...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Sounds like Hollywood costs, but isn't

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Development costs for the current generation of high-end consoles, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3, range from $20m to...

Facing History

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Going back in history, it's possible to imagine digital technologies — from websites to cell phones to Facebook and Twitter — making a r...
Friday, September 25, 2009

I've forgotten what this is about already

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Researchers now say that the stress of not being able to process information as fast as it arrives – combined with the personal and social e...

Instant trust: goodbye Google

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For more than 10 years, Google has organized the Web by figuring out who has authority. The company measures which sites have the most links...

Google books turns another page

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The judge overseeing Google's controversial agreement with American publishers to digitise millions of books has delayed a hearing into ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Cities and the matrix of the future

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Nice piece: I remember talking in 1993 with Nicholas Negroponte about Archigram and their amazing ideas; now they are back again in the futu...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Wireless: the new file sharing?

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Wireless carriers shouldn't be allowed to block certain types of Internet traffic flowing over their networks, the chairman of the Feder...

Trust me I'm a former spin doctor

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Alastair Campbell on getting elected... The first and most obvious step to authenticity is to be who and what you are. That does not mean n...

Micropayments: good if you are a monopoly

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Reifman defends his approach by pointing to several successful models of payment for services, including iTunes, text messaging, TiVo, and b...

Grande skinny, slightly wet extra hot news

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Terry Heaton's always interesting blog reflects on the news that: MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski is now...
Monday, September 21, 2009

I thought I'd drop you a short hand-written note.com

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It's true that kids will write more and more on computers and cellphones. Nonetheless, humanity has learned to rediscover as sports and ...

Can't Buy Me Love?

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The music industry dispute over illegal downloading intensified yesterday after talks between record labels and a rebel group of artists bro...

Is Google a Library?

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Untitled from andrewkeen on Vimeo . Andrew Keen interviews Siva Vaidhyanathan .

Pay day still someway off...

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From Paid Content/the Guardian

Never mind the depth, Feel the speed

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We may think metaphorically of the production of knowledge as a function of “information” and “attention,” with attention understood as the ...

Ex-Bankers: get into publishing now

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Even though Muhtar Bakare has lived all his life in Nigeria, a country enamoured of Big Men, he gave up his position as a bank executive to ...

Trust, Again

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The truth is the Internet didn’t steal the audience. We lost it. Today fewer people are systematically reading our papers and tuning into ou...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Normal Service Resumes Tomorrow

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That's Monday morning... It has been a hard summer; and now it is time to get back to work.
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Peter Hunt 31.12.1932 - 09.09.2009

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My father. The pleasure of risk is in the control needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider is, to the...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

The Tipping Point (and symbol)

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Rickett said he published an ebook simultaneously with all his titles and that this was linked to new online marketing strategies. "Boo...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Convergence v. Google

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"Google is the king of regular search. FriendFeed is the king of real-time search. This makes the coming battle over this issue much mo...
Monday, August 10, 2009

They will pay - for all you can eat

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The research, carried out by the University of Hertfordshire, reveals that an overwhelming majority of 14- 24-year-olds would be interested ...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

Spotify: three steps to heaven?

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Spotify needs to hit three triggers if it's not to be just the latest flash-in-the-pan: "Break through the 15-20 million user bar l...

Copycats No More? The Bill is Coming next Summer

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He accepted that there could be a need for furious litigation to prevent stories and photographs being copied elsewhere: "We'll be ...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

That Paying for Newspapers Online Meme: FT's Lionel Barber

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From the Guardian - who have mentioned the "paying" thing before now themselves. The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has ...

The Cabinet Office: getting funky?

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I was speaking recently to one of the academics working with Tim Berners-Lee on opening up UK government information. We both agreed that at...

Waterstones: sure we love the digital...for marketing

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Missing the point, no? From Waterstone's Twitter feed: WaterstonesUse #voucher code BG2298 at checkout for an extra 10% off when you sp...
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The People's Supermarket?

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I co-wrote a book about the future of retail many years ago: didn't think we'd come this far, so soon. Tesco has said it sees the fu...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

What The Wire tells us about the NOTW story – or are we watching “All the President’s Men” in reverse negative?

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Fans of the “greatest TV series of all time” (© just about everybody) will know that surveillance is the glue that holds together an urban p...

Novel Debuts (about the French Revolution, or not) now(ish) on Twitter

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Happy Bastille Day! Today I'm releasing my debut novel, The French Revolution, on Twitter. As far as I can tell... less than a minute ag...

What's next for the Book: Oxfam vs Waterstones

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A short story of our times: I'm finding almost as many relevant research books for my new book in the Oxfam store (in Hampstead) as in ...
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