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 anyone that...
View ArticleThe most extraordinary interview – Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer
There was a poll last year in which some disturbing number of Americans said that their main news source was The Daily Show – a nightly satirical show on the Comedy Channel hosted by Jon Stewart....
View ArticleA truly wonderful, absolutely British moment
It makes me proud to be British when I see something as simultaneously wonderful and hilarious as a middle-aged woman brow-beating a government minister into changing government policy. Joanna Lumley...
View ArticleTechnobile – amusing myself
Purely by accident I just came across a “technobile” column piece that I wrote for the Guardian a few years ago. I have to say I amused myself. Posted below but grabbed from the Guardian site:...
View ArticleThat Eddie Izzard is an interesting bloke
I’ve always thought Eddie Izzard was supremely funny but I didn’t realise that he’d be a really nice bloke just to know and have a conversation with until today. I embarked on some rather silly...
View ArticleThe UN’s main IGF representative losing it on screen
I posted the video of the United Nations’ representative Sha Zukang losing it about a week ago but forgot to stick up a blog post about it. It was a remarkable thing: Egypt’s first lady had inserted...
View ArticleYou want iBooks? Apple gives you iBoobs
I think Apple really needs to rethink about how it launches products. The Steve Jobs super-secret wham-bam thing is all well and good when something really new comes out – like the iPod with video or...
View ArticleICANN’s Big Night Out, Morning After plan
ICANN released the fourth version of its Applicant Guidebook this week. The process has been going on for so long with so many endless controversies and scandals, that those that actually want to apply...
View ArticleXmas vid about my little girl
We’re heading to the UK for Christmas. I’ve been meaning to try out this online video/picture tool at Animoto for work reasons. The two combined…
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