Year: 2003

  • Nice weather…

    …if you didn’t actually have to go anywhere.

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  • Turning weblogs into businesses

    Jim McClellan surveys early attempts to commercialise weblogs in The Guardian. Good article with lots of useful links at the end. This is one of those pieces that produces a…

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  • Barry Cox again

    On the strength of Barry Cox’s first provocative and wide-ranging lecture on the future of television, I’m looking forward to the next three. I don’t agree with everything he says…

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  • A self-perpetuating department of state

    Barry Cox, commercial TV old-timer, says we should get started on the long slog to an open market for television now: “Does a mature liberal democracy such as the UK…

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  • World Trade Center replacements

    A useful and funny critique of the candidates to fill the WTC’s footprint. Thanks to Gawker for the link.

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  • Steam-rollered?

    Felix Velarde – or at least his business < shouldn't exist. Underwired is a successful independent web design studio. Businesses like Felix’s are supposed to be extinct

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  • The Economist keeps the faith

    The last time The Economist ran a big survey of the Internet (1996?) I bought dozens of copies and sent them to all my clients and suppliers with a stern…

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  • Pizza with a pioneer

    Roger Green is a media backroom boy, a veteran of many years as a top manager at Britain’s number 2 magazine publisher EMAP (until he left the company last year)…

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  • Practically a proper journalist…

    The nice people at The Guardian (in particular Online editor Vic Keegan) continue to indulge me and have now allowed me a weekly ‘at large’ column which you’ll be able…

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  • Double clever?

    Emily Bell in The Guardian greets Ofcom’s new boss and wonders if the BBC might have been excluded from Ofcom’s scope in order to provide a PR win for the…

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