Year: 2004

  • Good radio

    A couple of outstanding BBC Radio programmes – Lionel Kellaway’s really thought-provoking Nature on the ecological value of so-called ‘brownfield’ land and the risks to the well-being of City dwellers…

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  • Social software in the real world?

    I’m sort of interested in social software and I’ve signed up for every networking site since MIT’s Firefly and Sixdegrees but I’ve always thought that it’s all a bit academic…

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  • Cafe fame

    The lovely New Piccadilly cafe in Denman St, W1, beloved of students, tourists and formica fanatics alike (and, of course, Russell “Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans” Davies), makes it into…

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  • The wisdom of the EPG

    Admirable prescience from someone at Tivo about last night’s England France game.

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  • So sue me…

    Listen, I’m a parent. I’m going to do this from time to time: three pics of my beautiful children.

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  • Going to the zoo…

    Yesterday I cold-called London Zoo about their online marketing. We love the zoo round here – we have an annual pass – best private club in town, if you ask…

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  • Middle management anarchists

    Notcon was, of course, splendid. I didn’t see enough of it to provide much of an overview (so you might want to read these guys: Wired News, David Brake, himself,…

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  • Vine again

    We got to Stella Vine’s opening at Transition early enough to meet the artist properly and to see all the work before the celebs showed up. Brilliant. I took some…

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  • Stella Vine at Transition

    This evening we’re going here to see this and we are very excited (we don’t get out much) – and last night we watched this video from French telly (or…

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  • Will the geeks break our democracy?

    Geeks are purists. Or at least, most of them are. Pragmatism is tolerated but deprecated. (of course, some people think geeks are autistic but that’s another story). Purists (and autistics)…

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