Year: 2004

  • Right you lot

    According to my web site stats, at least 60% of you are viewing this site in one or other version of IE on a PC (85% if you add all…

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  • Sterling’s green links

    Bruce Sterling has this fantastically useful list of green (and green-ish) resources at Wired Blogs. Did he dig these links out for himself?

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  • World’s oldest company?

    I sat down today to write 300 words for a special New Media Age to mark ten years of ‘new media’ in Britain and I thought I’d just get some…

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  • Reading

    Things I’d have read before if I hadn’t been so busy nodding off in front of Hell’s Kitchen. The Economist’s encouraging survey of eCommerce from a couple of weeks ago.…

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  • Firing myself

    This is the kind of thing you find when you’re cleaning out your storage unit: my P45 from Webmedia, given to me (by me) when I finally closed the doors…

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  • Franz Schubert vs George Formby

    This is why a public service broadcaster needs a stable online archive. A year ago I blogged a really lovely Radio 4 programme about Schubert’s C major quintet and linked…

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  • Fantasies of control

    Does anyone know how much David Blunkett’s ID cards are going to cost? No. Doesn’t look like it. There are no costs in the draft bill (PDF) and only some…

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  • The food industry is not the enemy

    Ad people are clever – problem-solvers by nature. Stopping them from using celebrities to promote food to kids is dumb because it’s just another creative constraint and ad people eat…

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  • Abu Ghraib Reading

    2023 UPDATE: when I read my old posts from this period I’m surprised and sometimes apalled at how apparently forgiving I was of the solecisms and straightforward lies of those…

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  • Ivan lives

    Ivan and I were partners for years – we started a web site design firm called Webmedia together. Later he went mad and spent three or four years in a…

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