Too much bloody work
It’s been six weeks since I last posted here. That can’t be good. And I have a ton of stuff to get out of my mind through my fingers. The one-day trivia brain of Los...
Category: Internet
Including the politics of the Net
Can someone please get to the ebook reader before Apple
I’m quite excited about the fact that Amazon has brought out a new ebook reader that it calls the Kindle. I haven’t seen one in the real world but I am assuming with the effort...
Now playing: Radiohead’s In Rainbows
This morning I received an email from downloadinrainbows@waste.uk.com providing a link to a 48.3MB zipped file. Three minutes later I was listening to Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows. I am listening to it now as...
The participative web – follow my Web2.0 ramblings at the OECD meeting
For those interested in Internet things – and in this case the sexy side of the Internet, Facebook and all that stuff – there is an interesting conference due to start in two hours in...
Review of Sex.com by Kev Murphy
Kevin Murphy, a British IT journo based in the US, has done a review of my Sex.com book on his blog. He likes it. Which is nice since he is one of roughly three journalists...
Am I keeping in touch with people – or just spreading tedious ditties?
I finally joined Facebook last week. It was when the fifth person from a different sphere of friends send me an invite that I realised it had hit that point where I was most likely...
Amazon.com now selling my book
This has to be good – I note that Amazon.com is now selling my book – Sex.com. Unfortunately there is still a four to six-week delivery date on it, which leads me to conclude that...
Back to work
In case anyone is wondering why I haven’t been calling, emailing, insisting people come out for drinks, and so on, I have been on a three-and-a-half-week tour covering New York, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico...
London Olympics logo faces wrath of Net democracy
This is going to be an interesting one. The logo for the London Olympics in 2012 was unveiled on Monday and it has met almost universal disdain. And for good reason – look at it...
So much for Google translation
Three weeks ago, I added a translation module to this blog as an experiment with automated translation software. The technology worked although thanks to some readers of different nationalities, it quickly became clear that the...