Year: 2002

  • Fraudster?

    Update: looks like it’s been in use since 1975 – and the first use is from the revered Financial Times! When did we all adopt the Daily Mail-ism ‘fraudster’ and…

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  • Winter of Discontent update: unrest spreads

    School teachers, tube workers, firefighters. Now monks? How will we know they’ve gone back to work?

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  • Intensely New York

    I have no idea whose link I followed to find Hugh MacLeod’s gapingvoid.com but I think these cartoons drawn on the backs of business cards are just about the most…

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  • Knocking Docherty

    I think Danny’s wrong to knock David Docherty’s ‘Cookie Monster‘ analogy. David may have been on a hiding to nothing from the beginning at Telewest, but the nub of truth…

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  • BBC Online under the microscope

    A long overdue enquiry into the BBC’s investment online should be a good thing for all parties but it must strike a delicate balance. If it turns into a mugging…

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  • What were you doing in 1964?

    Rachel Frank runs an online wine store called Arthur’s Bar. It’s a good site – excellent customer service, next day delivery, single bottles (most sites require you to buy a…

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  • You read it here first…

    After four years on the rollercoaster running another.com – and nearly ten years in the industry – I’m a free agent again. If you know me, you already knew this,…

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  • I want Danny O’Brien’s job

    Danny and Quinn interviewed Brewster Kahle.(Things I have written about Kahle and the public domain recently: Public domain in Peril? Not again! “It’s just not that big!”).

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  • “I don’t know why we call it a mouse…”

    I just found Douglas Engelbart’s 34 year-old SRI demo in which he introduced the mouse, word processing, outlining, graphical displays, a nifty chord keyboard and dozens of other concepts that…

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  • Mog is dead!

    Judith Kerr, much-loved children’s author, on why Mog had to die.

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