Year: 2011
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What would I print if I had a Little Printer?
Some disagreement out there about what BERG’s Little Printer is for. I don’t have any special insight but I think it’s a charming and clever thing and I badly want…
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Not understanding Greece
UPDATE: April 2022. It’s kind of embarrassing reading this 11 year-old blog post now. It seems callous and ignorant. But then thinking about it, the post dates from before we…
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Steve Jobs and everyone’s fork in the road
Robert Scoble’s got a touching video on his blog today. He’s outside Apple’s Cupertino HQ and talking about his first encounter with an Apple computer. He talks about unboxing an…
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A new job – and an afternoon of undiluted pleasure
In a few weeks time I’ll be heading back to BBC radio, where I’ll be taking over the job of Interactive Editor for Radio 3, the Proms and the performing…
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The second-best book about twentieth century music
Everybody knows the best book about Twentieth Century music is Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise but there’s another brilliant book set in the same period – Wilfrid Sheed’s The…
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You may think you want the death penalty but you don’t have the stomach for it
Surveys suggest that a majority of ordinary Britons want a return to the death penalty for the most heinous crimes (this online poll on The Sun’s web site has 80%…
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Steampunk radio on the Victorian Internet
A remarkable story about Victorian media innovation — Radio is changing. The first digital radio platform – DAB – is in danger of being eclipsed before most of us have…
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Allowing listeners to curate BBC radio
It was a quite brilliant weekend for BBC radio – so much good stuff that really stood out. Loads of radio that wasn’t just gripping, interesting, entertaining but was also…