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  • A chink of light for file sharing

    The FT reports that, in one market at least, file sharing may finally be damaging CD sales. In the US, three years after downloading became widespread and a year after…

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  • New words

    — Crixton — Kids living in Cricklewood in glorious but unglamorous North West London have borrowed some South London style from more newsworthy Brixton and renamed their neighbourhood ‘Crixton’. How…

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  • Not whining but drowning

    Hard copy from March’s PC Forum makes compelling reading (how do you blog hard copy?). The pace of change in the real world adds melancholy footnotes to the proceedings. Joe…

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  • an obvious money-spinner Introducing the

    an obvious money-spinner — Introducing the Cage-o-Gram — Today’s silly idea is to sell thousands of copies of this astounding recording of John Cage’s diaries and thus bring the planet…

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  • industry awards Strike a medal,

    industry awards — Strike a medal, hire a band — New media awards come and go ? these days mostly go. Most of them are thinly disguised promotions ? wobbly…

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  • Now this is a good idea

    According to the FT, a new DTI report on speeding broadband adoption is not very optimistic. It concludes that wider availability and falling prices will not be enough to persuade…

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  • urbanism World City Last night,

    urbanism — World City — Last night, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Spencer de Grey and Archie Galloway discussed the future of London as a ?World City? at a…

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  • warchalking Matt’s Meme A sketchy

    warchalking — Matt’s Meme — A sketchy etymology (backwards) for Matt Jones’ astonishingly infectious ‘warchalking’. Warchalking: depression-era hobo private language married by Matt to > war-driving: Wi-Fi era update for…

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  • Blog this (experience)

    Every weblog tool has a ‘blog this’ button. Clicking the button copies the URL of the site you’re looking at to your weblog so you can annotate it later. Now…

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  • “It’s just not that big”

    Brewster Kahle, web archivist, asserts that the history of world cinema has produced no more than a hundred thousand feature films ? even at 5 gigabytes per movie that?s a…

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