2003 – Page 28

4 February 2003

Bowbrick at large

My latest column for Guardian Online is up. It’s headlined Secret of their success and it’s about weblogs and the uniquely conversational tone of really good bloggers.

4 February 2003

Perkins is among us

If you’ve never heard of The Red Herring it might be a bit late for you to catch up. For most of the nineties and throughout the tech boom, the…

4 February 2003

The new Greg Dyke, more like…

Jana Bennet, the BBC’s new Director of Television, comes out fighting in Media Guardian.

3 February 2003

By the way…

Postman’s Park in the City is a reminder of London’s continuing power to surprise. A 50ft long ceramic tile memorial in a quiet park buried amongst the commercial buildings –…

3 February 2003

On Sontag

The Guardian ran an extract from Susan Sontag’s new book ‘Regarding the Pain of Others’ (itself an edited version of a New Yorker article – how’s that for repurposing?). Sontag…

3 February 2003

Our hero

By train to Farringdon, then a beautiful walk through the City – past Smithfield and St Paul’s, through Postman’s Park – to meet Michael Thompson, a partner at Steptoe and…

3 February 2003

31p per day…

Steve Barnett is a media academic and a prominent defender of British broadcasting’s mythic quality and distinctiveness – and, of course, the licence fee. In his response to Barry Cox’s…

3 February 2003

The Nelson Mandela International Peace Force…

David Aaronovitch finds good reasons for liberals to support the war in The Observer.

1 February 2003

Air-heads?

Azeem alerts me to Tony Perkins’ latest project. Perkins is an interesting figure: a glamorous member of a Sand Hill Road tech VC dynasty, founder of the Silicon Valley bible…

1 February 2003

Vàclav Havel

If you were brought up in Britain and on the left, like me, the Vàclac Havel of Soviet-era Czechoslovakia was an exotic and quite difficult figure. By the time I…

Year: 2003