First trip back to the city
This morning I headed into San Francisco on what was my normal commuter routine for the first time in over a year. I am clearly one of the first. Buses are reduced. And for good...
Category: Journalism
My profession
Prop8 strike-down rally
Yesterday, the news came through that Judge Walker in San Francisco had ruled that the controversial Proposition 8 – which bans gay marriage in California and had been approved by referendum two years ago –...
Updated software, new post
So I’ve finally updated the software that this blog uses – WordPress – from 2.0.1 to 2.8.4 – which will mean nothing to most of you but cause others to wonder what the hell I’ve...
Who loves the Internet more: Obama or the Pope?
It seems that the Internet is catching on with the most powerful men in the world. Both the Pope and the new US president Barack Obama have this week announced new web strategies and told...
Nominet Board fight rolls on
Yet another extraordinary statement has come out of Nominet – the .uk registry owner – today. This time, the chairman Bob Gilbert lambasts a “number of false allegations” made in a resignation letter from former...
Jennifer Lopez fights cybersquatting case
Singer Jennifer Lopez has filed papers against the owner of jenniferlopez.org and jenniferlopez.net, accusing him of cybersquatting. The two sites are owned by one Jeremiah Tieman who lives in Arizona and uses the sites to...
Net marvels: the Obama Inauguration
There’s nothing like a big event to get people thinking, particularly when that event is the inauguration of a president who brings with him the hopes and dreams of a generation. Barack Obama will be...
Frost/Nixon: Film review
It may be worth declaring a conflict of interest straight off: I can’t stand David Frost. As a child, he instilled a strange kind of lonely hatred on Through the Keyhole – a formulaic game...
Satriani vs Coldplay: court docs and audio links
So British superband of the moment Coldplay is being sued in Los Angeles for plagiarising guitarist Joe Satriani in their hit Viva la Vida. Joe says that the song – also the title of Coldplay’s...
The Internet Governance Forum – third time lucky
I was at the United Nations in Geneva last week to watch what was happening to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as it prepares for its third outing, this December in Hyderabad, India. Actually I...