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Steve Bowbrick
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  • This is how it starts

    Adam Wishart has written the best book about the dot.com lunacy yet and now Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing has picked up on it. He says it reads like “an early Gibson novel”. High praise. The book’s called Leaving Reality Behind (co-written with Regula Bochsler) and it’s not your standard airport business book – involving,…

  • Napoleon

    Even if you’re pro-European like me it’s impossible to read Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s first draft of Articles 1 to 16 of the proposed European Constitutional Treaty without the word ‘Napoleonic’ forming silently in your head. Amid the careful discussion of ‘competencies’ and ‘subsidiarity’ you can make out a continent-spanning centralising instinct which must, sooner or…

  • Why should I bother?

    Bill Thompson, the

  • asynchronous pulsation!

    Technorati provides evidence of my first ever French inbound link ? from Mario, a Head Teacher in Quebec (directeur d’?cole = Head Teacher?). Thrilling. Better still is Babelfish’s translation of the entry in question: “I like much the idea that evokes “the attentive listening” of the tone of the notebook Web. To find its voice,…

  • Code is law, pictures are rubbish

    I put up a few pictures from yesterday’s Oxford conference, The Politics of Code. Maybe tomorrow I’ll try some words.

  • Need a decent Lighting pun here

    Jane Lighting has won the top job at Channel 5. Story from The Guardian. I’m making a serious attempt to link to newspapers other than The Guardian for media stories these days but this would be easier if they weren’t all so badly designed and flakey! Come on guys! A string of 404s from The…

  • Top-slicing

    Charles Allen, Chairman of Granada, tells the Royal Television Society that the BBC should be required to hand over 10% of its licence fee revenue to fund public service output on the commercial networks. This is presumably Allen’s opening shot in the charter renewal debate. Not a bad idea – certainly a very direct way…

  • Proles vs Toffs

    I’ve spent a fascinating day in Oxford at the Politics of Code conference, featuring the estimable Larry Lessig, Esther Dyson et al – and a lot of old friends. It’s late so I’ll post properly tomorrow. In the meantime, I think I’ll find an excuse to pop back to Oxford tomorrow to watch the students…

  • My favourite search terms

    People arriving at my web site via a search engine are searching for the strangest things. According to my logs the number one search term is “The Gruffalo” which makes sense. Also pretty high up the list are “diy coffee table” (and, of course, “coffee table diy“), “chat rooms for boring gits“, “bamber gascoigne birthday”…

  • BBC Charter big guns

    The Guardian confirms that the BBC has responded quickly and seriously to Tessa Jowell’s announcement that Charter renewal won’t be a cake walk. They’ve rolled out two top executives to lead the defense of the licence fee.