Steve Bowbrick
Steve Bowbrick
@bowbrick@bowblog.com
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  • Power laws

    Bloggers are fixating on ‘power laws’. I’ve read all the stuff (including Clay’s perfectly sane starting point) and it’s obviously useful stuff with plenty of predictive power but it’s dry as dust. Now this dreary economic concept is going to be rattling round the blogosphere for months and we’re going to have to get used…

  • Golf War

    Watching the anti-war march on the TV the other day we noticed that two of the most prominent placards in the throng at Piccadilly Circus were advertising a Golf Sale.

  • Docherty on BBCi

    David Docherty, until recently head of broadband content at Telewest, defends the ?200M invested in BBCi so far. From Media Guardian.

  • Love and War

    Juliet’s worrying about the war (and Valentine’s Day) in her latest Planet Parent column at Tigerchild.

  • Roger Needham

    A lovely tribute to Cambridge University’s Roger Needham from John Naughton in The Observer.

  • Azhar on 3G

    Good piece by Azeem Azhar in The Guardian about the mobile operators’ perilous leap into 3G.

  • A death examined

    I think this may be the most heartbreaking reporting to come out of the Columbia disaster: “The communication checks continue. So does the silence. A radar station near the Kennedy center then says it is putting its radar in a “search mode.” “We do not have any valid data at this time,” said Jones. He…

  • Overdoing adaptation

    Steven Pinker is a Pub Darwinist. We all know at least one – the guy for whom there’s no greater pleasure than locating the long hidden adaptive explanation for this or that phenomenon – wife beating, drinking, losing your car keys, droning on about natural selection… they all confer some adaptive advantage in the Pub…

  • Evolution

    My latest Guardian column is up today. It’s about the creeping reabsorption of the net by mainstream society and the end of our fantasies of living in a parallel world by our own rules.

  • From behind the firewall

    From the mind-boggling insight department. A weblog from within Saddam’s Iraq, kept in defiance of Government firewalls and intimidation by a young man possibly named Raed. I think a lot of people are going to be reading this very carefully (thanks to just about everybody for the link).