February 2003 – Page 2

21 February 2003

Attention Deficit Cinema

Waldman advocates tearing a century of movie culture into bleeding chunks and playing the whole lot back in no particular order – a sort of Attention Deficit Cinema. Personally, I…

21 February 2003

Drive-through zoo

What’s the latest thinking on Safari Parks? A beautiful sunny Winter’s day, lots of entertaining animals (and a diverting attempt to eat our car by the giraffes) made for a…

21 February 2003

No substitute for a fat consulting fee

I’ve just noticed that the sweeties at think tank Demos have given me a heart-warming credit on their new weblog. ‘Inpired by Steve Bowbrick’ it says. This is in lieu…

19 February 2003

Great writing

This, from The Guardian’s John Sutherland, is how I’d like my column to read. Fat chance.

19 February 2003

Power laws

Bloggers are fixating on ‘power laws’. I’ve read all the stuff (including Clay’s perfectly sane starting point) and it’s obviously useful stuff with plenty of predictive power but it’s dry…

18 February 2003

Golf War

Watching the anti-war march on the TV the other day we noticed that two of the most prominent placards in the throng at Piccadilly Circus were advertising a Golf Sale.

17 February 2003

Docherty on BBCi

David Docherty, until recently head of broadband content at Telewest, defends the ?200M invested in BBCi so far. From Media Guardian.

17 February 2003

Love and War

Juliet’s worrying about the war (and Valentine’s Day) in her latest Planet Parent column at Tigerchild.

17 February 2003

Roger Needham

A lovely tribute to Cambridge University’s Roger Needham from John Naughton in The Observer.

14 February 2003

Azhar on 3G

Good piece by Azeem Azhar in The Guardian about the mobile operators’ perilous leap into 3G.

Month: February 2003