Year: 2006
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The next SMS?
A friend of mine just told me about USSD. Of course, you already knew about USSD – it’s been in the GSM spec since the beginning (like SMS). It’s a…
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An ad idea
Mark Cuban – who should get over himself, by the way – has had a brilliant idea: live TV ads. The more I think about it the more I like…
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The survivor…
In May 2002 I wrote this piece for The Guardian. In it I celebrated the unlikely survival of the big, dumb, general-purpose PC – over-determined, over-specced and over here. Four…
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You’ve heard of Jazz Hands…
This is a real product. What were they thinking?
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Calendar stuff
30boxes is awesome. Why did I hesitate? I have no good reason to use a desktop calendar any more – although I guess I’ll keep iCal synched up to 30boxes…
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Sort of weekendy blog stuff
Thinking about it, poetry might be the best application of podcasting yet. I suppose that poetry is about as close to music as language gets and listening to poetry in…
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Remembering Tony Blair, part one
Tony Blair ignored, neglected and ultimately abused the party that gave him power. He was right to do so. In the early 1990s Tony Blair saw that the Labour Party…
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What is our problem with entrepreneurship?
I wrote a piece for the supplement that accompanied The Guardian’s Changing Media Summit last week: What is an entrepreneur? “A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses,…
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Rupert Murdoch wants me to move
To America, in fact…
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Small pleasures
Tea, in a small polystyrene cup, on the way to work, from Mr Patel’s paper stall on platform 1 at Radlett station.