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places and camphone privacy
Camphone hysteria is building. Gadgets with built-in cameras are being banned all over the place. Looks like we’ll see an arbitrary patchwork of camphone rules emerge ??some will ban them, others encourage them ??most, presumably, try to ignore them. But maybe this is actually a rational response to new surveillance tech. Maybe an evolved public…
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How strange are the Electric Light Orchestra?
Juliet asked me to download some of their stuff so that she could be fifteen again for a while so I did and now I’m speechless at how we let this utterly kooky blend of The Beach Boys and Wagner work its weird way up the charts so often when I was a kid ??I…
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Looking for Laurent
Laurent Byford (or is it Bayford?) used to work at a web design firm called Designercity (now defunct). I need to contact him urgently on some another.com business. Do you know him? Do you have any idea where he might be? I understand he is French and returned there after he left Designercity but that…
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Dancing
I’m in the kitchen washing up and watching Twyla Tharp‘s staggeringly beautiful In The Upper Room on BBC4 ??a piece from 1986 with a score by Philip Glass (They’re having a dance season on BBC4). Although I think Tharp is supposed to be a bit uncool these days, even on the little portable in the…
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Why I won’t be buying any Google shares
Actually, it’s quite boring. I won’t be buying any shares in Google because I never buy shares in anything. The only businesses I’ve owned shares in are my own. This probably explains why I wasn’t on Concorde’s final flight last week. Anyway, Google is now such a household word that you can barely pick out…
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Things I’d have been reading if I’d been reading the right things lately
Tom Standage’s survey ‘Beyond the Bubble‘ from the Economist a couple of weeks ago. You could use these, beautifully written, periodic Economist surveys to plot a pretty accurate graph of sentiment in telecoms and the net business over the last decade. I’ve kept them all, over the years – covering telecoms, the net and ecommerce. In…
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Nice
Enigmatic Paul Murphy will draw your dog (or your car, or anything really) from a photograph (or from a photograph of somebody else’s dog if you like). Intriguing rumour has it he’s been asked to draw Demi Moore’s kids Rumer, 15, Scout, 11, and Tallulah, 9, as a wedding gift for the planned Valentine’s Day…
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Ouch
When I said that Carltonada shareholders might be happy for Allen and Green to spend a little more time with their families, I definitely didn’t expect it all to kick off quite so soon. A shareholder scorned… The ITV landscape is going to look very different in a few months time. Cue Elstein?
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Do it yourself… Start your own school…
I’m at Demos‘ tenth birthday party and I’m bending the ear of Geoff Mulgan ? founder of Demos and, since 1999, a top man in the Number 10 Policy Unit (the do tank) ? about education (I feel OK doing this because he’s had a child since the last time we met). He tells me…