Year: 2004

  • Staff development

    The thing about those Mirror photos, I think, is not that they always looked like fakes (which they did) but that they really looked more like pages from a training…

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  • Invisible content

    Try this simple test. Go to the BBC Radio 4 web site and find the RealMedia streams for Misha Glenny’s excellent series of talks about European expansion, Brave New Europe.…

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  • But is there a redemption penalty?

    I can’t tell you what a relief it is that God has finally entered the highly competitive sub-prime lending market (from today’s slightly-more-entertaining-than-usual spam).

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  • My Mother-in-law

    I’m not saying she’s strange, but it turns out she’s been keeping a collection of battered 1970s American license plates in the loft. Nobody knows why… And while we’re on…

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  • Passenger information

    Paul complains that I don’t provide a link to a timetable in my entry on The North London Line – so I’ve added one (although the Silverlink web site is…

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  • Ad man blogs

    Russell Davies used to be something important in online advertising – but that was before anyone had heard of online advertising. These days he’s something important in advertising. He’s keeping…

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  • No, really. I’m fine. I didn’t want any Google shares anyway

    Like I said, me and Warren Buffet, we won’t be buying any Google shares in the company’s upcoming IPO. Of course, he could actually buy some if he felt like…

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  • Kitchen sink ethnography

    There was something on the radio the other day about mantelpieces. An academic has been making a close study of what people keep there – she reckons they’re a good…

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  • Making bbc content visible

    Finding anything at The BBC’s web site is close to impossible these days. The site is deep (lots of layers), it’s very wide (lots of channels, departments, shows, regions, teams…),…

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  • Why I’m getting lots of extra traffic (and still won’t be buying any Google shares)

    Bowblog’s site traffic has nearly doubled in the last few weeks. I’d like to think this has something to do with the sustained wit and verve of my writing but…

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