So Mark Lloyd, an otherwise respectable lawyer (and a bit of an expert on tech and Internet lawyering in general) calls me yesterday and asks how my blogging business is going. I tell him it’s pretty cool but it’s still early days and then I tell him, by way of industry background, that Sony just took a stake in Gawker’s Lifehacker. Mark’s reaction is, frankly, sniffy – as if to say: “is that the best you can do? I digested that particular nugget six hours ago. In fact anyone with a half-respectable RSS reader finished gossiping about that one before their second skinny latte this morning, you sad old git”. I think this semantic web thing has a lot to answer for…
