February 2003 – Bowblog

27 February 2003

Don’t panic

Are you getting spam like this yet?

27 February 2003

Forget Moore’s Law

Michael Malone, top tech journo, says in The Herring that we should forget Moore’s law. The thesis is that, as the universe of chips expands, more buyers are sticking with…

26 February 2003

PR Works

The recording industry has the best PR. Evidence: a quite startling suspension of balance on The BBC’s agenda setting morning news show The Today Programme today. An item, by Stephen…

26 February 2003

Reassembly in Wapping

Half term is over but Olly (my four year-old) and I saw out our last day of freedom in style. We went to the handsome Wapping Project in… er… Wapping…

26 February 2003

Ouch

Bill Thompson comes back stoutly to my sarcastic response to his BBC article about Google and the Bloggers. Read the comments here. The thing is, I usually find it difficult…

26 February 2003

Planet Parent

Juliet’s latest column at Tigerchild is up. This week she discusses the difficulty she experienced bonding with our second baby Billie. It’s a very moving piece.

25 February 2003

Micropayments and probability

I could have been kinder to the big brains at Peppercoin I’m sure but someone had to say it. This week’s Guardian column is about the latest brilliant but doomed…

23 February 2003

Blogger basher

Bill Thompson has flipped. According to this article for the BBC (and in no particular order): blogging is not journalism and will not effect mainstream journalists, link frequency and pagerank…

23 February 2003

invisible architecture

Should I tell the architects of BBC News Online‘s far-reaching redesign that, far from being confused, put off or even pleased by the redesign, I didn’t notice it at all…

23 February 2003

Note to self

Check editor’s credentials carefully. HANNAH ARENDT’S NAZI EDITOR. From Amygdala

Month: February 2003