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Steve Bowbrick
Steve Bowbrick
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  • Stupid Bush, beligerant Chavez

    Venezuela could soon be the largest producer of oil in the world and will almost certainly be sitting on the largest known reserves. The Chavez experiment is to translate epic natural wealth (already producing $120B of income per year) into broad-based national prosperity. No democracy has ever managed this (Norway?). No country has ever turned…

  • Stupid Threshers

    It turns out the Thresher promotion I wrote about yesterday was a fake viral campaign and, of course, it also turns out that everyone already knew so my enthusiastic Poirot-style revelation wasn’t quite so clever. Anyway, the whole thing is so wrong on so many levels I hardly know where to begin. I think I’ll…

  • Is the Thresher discount coupon a fake viral campaign?

    Let’s get this straight. The Threshers coupon is a con. Or at least a clever pre-Christmas promotion. Let me sketch the background for you foreigners (although I suppose the thing has probably been downloaded on every continent by now – as we speak, no doubt, there are people wandering the streets of Lusaka and Aukland…

  • What am I on about?

    That last entry was a bit obscure wasn’t it? What I mean is that out there, in the world, there’s an actually existing cyberspace which was invented (or at least imagined) quite a long time ago now by people like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and that now those same people are out there actually…

  • trashfire

    In Belgrade the rubbish bins are burning. I know this because Bruce Sterling has been taking photographs of them. Blimey. Kind of sends the mind reeling doesn’t it? Co-inventor of many imagined cyberspaces casually co-creates actual existing cyberspace using his little Minolta digital camera…

  • 21st Century Communications

    So it turns out there’s been something wrong with my email. For a couple of weeks about half of my inbound mail has been routed to a trench in the middle of the North Atlantic. Fish have been reading it. Something to do with my dns – and all my own fault apparently. Anyway, I…

  • Honk if you don’t blog

    There are still a few non-bloggers left in the world. I’d like to hear from them. I’m writing a piece for a DCMS web site called Projects Etc. Working title: ‘Autobiography is the new rock ‘n’ roll’. Thesis: ‘self telling’, autobiographical writing, journalising, blogging, diary keeping, confessional media etc. are taking over. We’re obsessed. We…

  • Learning how to use Snipperoo

    Ivan’s put a nifty ‘how to‘ movie up over at Snipperoo – explaining how to use Snipperoo to simplify adding a flickr badge to your site, to be specific. Go on. Give it a try. In Ivan’s how to he adds a flickr badge displaying pictures of his kids to the Widgeteer demo blog. What…

  • Winding up MPs

    Proper exciting to hear Stef Magdalinski talking about They Work for You on Today in Parliament Friday. MPs of various stripes are pretty pissed off with They Work for You because it exposes them to the kind of performance measurement they’ve been imposing on the rest of the public sector for years. Stef acquited himself…

  • Sheila Duke, neé Bowbrick, 1930–2006

    My Aunt Sheila (in the front of this picture), a funny, generous, rude and slightly loopy Cockney who always cheered me up and was a proper anchor for the Bowbricks in good times and bad, has died. She was born in 1930, one of seven. She was my Dad’s older sister by about a year…