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  • BBC Online under the microscope

    A long overdue enquiry into the BBC’s investment online should be a good thing for all parties but it must strike a delicate balance. If it turns into a mugging…

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  • What were you doing in 1964?

    Rachel Frank runs an online wine store called Arthur’s Bar. It’s a good site – excellent customer service, next day delivery, single bottles (most sites require you to buy a…

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  • You read it here first…

    After four years on the rollercoaster running another.com – and nearly ten years in the industry – I’m a free agent again. If you know me, you already knew this,…

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  • I want Danny O’Brien’s job

    Danny and Quinn interviewed Brewster Kahle.(Things I have written about Kahle and the public domain recently: Public domain in Peril? Not again! “It’s just not that big!”).

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  • “I don’t know why we call it a mouse…”

    I just found Douglas Engelbart’s 34 year-old SRI demo in which he introduced the mouse, word processing, outlining, graphical displays, a nifty chord keyboard and dozens of other concepts that…

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  • Mog is dead!

    Judith Kerr, much-loved children’s author, on why Mog had to die.

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  • HTML help!

    Can anyone vaguely HTML-literate view source and tell me why the GIF at top right doesn’t display in Mac OS X Mozilla 1.2? It works in Explorer. Apologies in advance…

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  • Blogging from my camphone

    I wondered if I could ‘blog real life’ from my new camphone. Cynical Matt Jones says ‘don’t hold your breath’, optimistic Azeem Azhar says ‘watch this space’, clever James Cronin…

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  • DIY Coffee Table Book

    Which brings the number of links on the left of this page to a frightening twenty, if you take into account the two external ones. It is way too much.…

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  • Docherty repulsed!

    I can’t help but warm to David Docherty’s image of greedy Cookie Monsters spoiling the broadband party for the unfortunate content creators. The geeks, in particular, never warmed to David…

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