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Nearly half a bicycle
The atomic theory in Kilburn — This place (on Kilburn High Road) has been morphing steadily from dry cleaner’s to bike shop over the last few years. I remember being surprised one morning to see a few kids’ bikes lined up for sale outside but I’d say the shop is now approaching 50% bike shop. […]
Where is my patriotism?
Come, love of country, fill my heart… — I do love Britain. I guess I love England more. London most of all. I hope that in my life I’ve honoured the place I live and not disgraced it or undermined it (I support England and GB in sporting events – I fly a little flag […]
Some bullet-points about regulation
In case you’d got the wrong idea about how the ’regulatory state‘ is supposed to work — UPDATED 23 May 2025. I could update this thing daily. Regulation is always a news story in the UK (Search any news service for ‘regulation‘ right now and you’ll get a long list of current news stories about […]
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Going to the zoo…
Yesterday I cold-called London Zoo about their online marketing. We love the zoo round here – we have an annual pass – best private club in town, if you ask…
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Middle management anarchists
Notcon was, of course, splendid. I didn’t see enough of it to provide much of an overview (so you might want to read these guys: Wired News, David Brake, himself,…
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Vine again
We got to Stella Vine’s opening at Transition early enough to meet the artist properly and to see all the work before the celebs showed up. Brilliant. I took some…
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Stella Vine at Transition
This evening we’re going here to see this and we are very excited (we don’t get out much) – and last night we watched this video from French telly (or…
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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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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…