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Arctic Monkeys stars just by word of mouth. And 200 press articles.

By Kieren / January 24, 2006

I love this. A new band is rocketing up the charts, is set to become the fastest-ever something and the […]

By Kieren / January 23, 2006

One of the very worst facets of modern journalism is the use of “surveys” as a news item. Such surveys

By Kieren / January 22, 2006

One of the things that most confuses and irritates the printed media is what makes readers buy a paper, not

By Kieren / January 17, 2006

I received five pieces of post through my letterbox this morning, and as I was going through them, they struck

By Kieren / January 15, 2006

There is an ongoing battle between animals rights groups and the University of Oxford over a new building being built

By Kieren / January 11, 2006

Tony Blair is sectionable. If he was just an ordinary bloke in an ordinary job he would have been told

By Kieren / January 11, 2006

I've never really understood the collective madness that surrounds Steve Jobs keynotes. The Apple CEO is undoubtedly charismatic, and he

By Kieren / January 5, 2006

I've done another ranty column for The Guardian's technology section. This one moaning about waiting, waiting, waiting for my laptop

By Kieren / January 2, 2006

So I wrote an article covering how the rules on redelegations for country code top-level domains had been changed in

By Kieren / December 23, 2005

The Times journalist James Bone castigated by Kofi Annan at the UN end-of-year press conference has fired back, inevitably, with