Month: August 2003

  • Somebody’s listening

    I’m pleased to be able to tell you that, a few short months after I suggested it, Craig’s List has arrived in London. Danny wrote about it back in June.…

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  • Ugliness

    Isabel Hilton in The Guardian (I do read some other newspapers, it’s just that none of them let me link to their stuff properly!) reminds us how much the current…

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  • Carter, got

    He’s in post, seems to know roughly what’s going on (260 duties on his to do list), writes nicely (or at least his press office does) and he has a…

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  • What was that about a free lunch?

    The bad news about hydrogen is coming in. Alex Farrell at UC Berkeley and David Keith at Carnegie Mellon University conclude that the switch to hydrogen will quite likely just…

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  • Is it just because I’m a boy?

    Yesterday, somewhere in Kent, a train reached 200 miles per hour. When I was a kid – long before the tunnel – I used to find it exciting to stand…

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  • Telly events

    Are you planning to go to either the Edinburgh TV Festival 22–24 August or to the RTS’s Cambridge Convention 18–20 September? If you are, drop me a line.

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  • Spoiler shame? Not really.

    David Liddiment knows his stuff (and his column is one of the several very good reasons to buy Media Guardian Mondays) but he’s reading the BBC’s mission through the distorting…

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