Year: 2002

  • Hail Freedonia!

    With the unreality of Firefly’s Freedonia, the British pop media is now entering its third continuous week of multi-page coverage for the fact that the Prime Minister’s wife was made…

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  • An infinitely hot and dense dot

    Geeks – at least those with any vision – dream of ‘the singularity‘. For the social software geeks, this singularity will arrive when information space collapses into a sort of…

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  • Government content? exciting, huh?

    Mike Butcher blogs a deal between the UK Government and MSN to offer Government content to MSN users. Mike draws out an analogy with the recent discussion of Azeem Azhar’s…

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  • So what is next?

    I wrote a piece for The Guardian. I was asked to to write about what I might do next but it was rushed and I wound up cataloguing the current…

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  • Jack’s Google tips

    From the outboard brain department, here’s Jack Schofield’s October piece documenting the neat things you can do to improve the results of your Google searches. I searched for this article…

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  • Old geezer? Moi?

    The FT ran a little piece about my departure from another.com in their ‘People’ section. This is the section usually populated by old geezers in bad suits taking jobs running…

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  • Mitnick on Markoff

    The most interesting thing about The Guardian’s Mitnick piece is that he doesn’t seem bitter – except maybe about Markoff: My argument is not that I shouldn’t have been punished,…

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  • Anyone give me odds?

    This may be my weblog’s first authentic scoop. A ‘friend’ (picture removed) – an author and publishing insider – tells me, with some credibility, that Michael Crichton’s Nano-frightener Prey will…

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  • Five myths about web services

    I’m sure I’ll find Bob Sutor’s Five Biggest Myths about Web Services very useful when I finally decide what to do with webservices.net. Link via Werblog

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  • Moblogging without going out

    Update: like practically every post of this vintage on my blog, the links here are broken and the post is, as a result, incomprehensible. And whatever the Memory Hole actually…

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