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  • Domestic dilemma

    Billie is painting, Olly is at a friend’s house for tea, Juliet is waiting in an interminable queue at Watford General Hospital to see her consultant (our third baby is due 1st May) and I am shopping for a Mini DV Camcorder. My friend Paul, who knows more about it than I do, says I…

  • POD at HUP

    I’ll say this slowly. You may now buy print-on-demand books from Harvard University Press. They’ve made a list of 100 out-of-print classics available to be bought one at a time. And these are not crappy xeroxed copies: “The books in this program are printed as facsimiles of the last edition,” says John Walsh, production manager…

  • Guardian.jpgTotal Information Washout

    This week’s Bowbrick at Large in The Guardian is about the broken dreams of the Internet advertising business. For about ten minutes back in what we’ll one day remember as the dawn of Internet time, the big advertisers – the pre-eminent engines of the ‘old’ economy – dreamt of perfect data. Their consultants and gurus…

  • Alien!

    Juliet’s latest column at Tigerchild is up. This week, with seven weeks until the birth of our third child, she’s having a G.E. Kane moment.

  • Wonks on the BBC’s future

    Policy wonks (what is a wonk exactly?) Damian Tambini and Jamie Cowling survey the increasingly obstacle-strewn path to charter renewal for the BBC in FT Creative Business (you’ll need to subscribe to FT.com to see the article). It is fascinating to watch the quick collapse of the corporation’s untouchable status over the last few months.…

  • Digital radio’s revenge

    Top media analyst Mathew Horsman says Cinderella media technology DAB may yet thrive but it could do so at the cost of the 3G operators. You need to subscribe to FT.com to see the article (I think – try it!).

  • cloning

    With all the fuss about human cloning, I was pretty sure I’d find a good selection of books of essays on the topic. I could only find one: this post-Dolly volume from 1999. It turns out to be very good: very difficult to say no to a book whose cover promises “essays from experts ranging…

  • London’s economic strength

    The Statesman last week has a pullout transcript of a round table discussion on the topic of ‘London’s economic strength’. There’s a PDF version here. The participants include Ed Balls, Chief Economic Adviser to The Treasury, Anne Seex, Chief Executive of Norwich City Council and various academics, agency heads and policy types. In the chair…

  • And on… and on… A plug

    When he was UK MD of Ariston, Giuliano Gnagnati brought you those mesmerising TV ads (“Ariston… and on… and on…”). Ariston was an obscure Italian brand ? sales and brand awareness soared. These days he’s running his own equally unorthodox online whiteware store Whitebox. You can buy a pretty good selection of the big brands…

  • Country Code rebellion

    Thanks to Kevin Werbach for linking to this excellent piece from The Register about this week’s meeting of the obscure group of organisations who look after the national top level domains (like .uk, .ca, .at etc.). Try not to nod off. This group and ICANN are squaring up for a punch up on a planetary…