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- Back to the USSR
It is already a hopeless cliche to note that the poisoning of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is like something from one of those washed-out 70s spy thrillers, or even the new James Bond movie. The astonishing news this afternoon that former Russian PM Yegor Gaidar may also have been poisoned only adds to the [...]
- Broken blog
It seems entry pages and subject archives are broken - the pages have vanished. I’ve tried republishing, but it’s all to no avail. If anyone knows something about a fault with Typepad, or if there’s something I’m doing wrong, do let me know…
[Update: all working again. Very irritating fault, though - possibly only fixed by [...]
- Whacking the Union
David Cox has written a provocative piece on the state of the United Kingdom. With both England and Scotland wanting to split, it seems, could the Scottish parliamentary elections in May prove to be the separation that precedes the divorce?
Nobody down here would, it seems, care much.
“The English have far more cause to do [...]
- Death of Press Gazette is a glimpse of the future
I was very sorry to hear of the Press Gazette’s closure. Guardian Unlimited - through MediaGuardian.co.uk - is/was clearly a rival, but I was one of the few (2,776 of us) who had a subscription, kept running for years. It was always a place for us to turn to get a reasonably fair view on [...]
- Social media froth
This is the problem with keeping a blog… stop writing, and people think you’ve either died or thrown a strop. Those of you who know me well may be surprised to find neither is the case - I’ve just been a bit busy. Partly because of this gap, partly because the mighty Lloyd invited me [...]
- Beers and innovation
A worthy combination, if ever there was one. And I’m chairing the NMK event of that name tonight, at Albannach in Trafalgar Square. It’s a series of events inspired by Tom Coates’ cry last year: “Where are all the UK startups?” Which is a reasonable question.
Deirdre Molloy has assembled a top notch panel, even if [...]
- The future of journalism: archaeology
Hats off to Steve Yelvington, who comes up with an enormously interesting post on the changing nature of programming, and journalism, and how the changes in both are linked.
“Vernor Vinge’s notion of the ‘programmer archaeologist’ really is about discovering what’s already out there, and placing it into valuable context. The mashup, the journalist-blogger and the [...]
- Talking Tosh
Ahead of next weekend’s Podcastcon, where I’m sitting on a citizen journalism panel, I was interviewed by John Buckley of Citizen Scoop. We covered podcasting, why newspapers blog (a fashionable question this weather) and the rather dull contents of my iPod podcasts folder. His podcast of our conversation is now up.
- A home networking solution I understand
Charles has a fascinating piece in today’s Technology section on a mains networking system called Solwise. The cheap devices essentially turn your electric circuits at home into an Ethernet network, painlessly. I never knew this stuff existed, but it looks like just the solution for networking up Tosh Towers which - despite its jauntily sloping [...]
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