The Benefits and Time of Facebook (or other Social Networks)

There’s a huge amount of fury on the internet at the moment over Facebook and it’s siloing of information. They’re being compared to early AOL, a walled garden, a black hole of information, a stain on society, and I can see why everyone would think this. Let’s be honest, the value in any social network [...]

Cameron Sums Up The Podcast Network’s Plans

With the little Blog -winds-light-to-variable over in the US over PodTech (start here), I’ve been having a few people ping me about my thoughts. Firstly though, a historical note from Hugh MacLeod
The Future of Blogging, Gpaing Void
And Cameron goes and beats me to it, and says it a lot better than I ever could.
I’m fascinated [...]

Let The Shipping Wars Start Up Again

Time to choose your sides – are you going to go with Rose/Scorpius or Rose/James. Any takers for Lily/Hugo?

Fan fiction writers, start your engines!

Last.FM, Please Normalize Your Output!

A simple one here guys – listening to Last.FM throughout the day see the bottom right of the blog for my currently playing music). Throw in a tag mix and a good neighbourhood and it’s amazing the tunes suitable for TPN Rock that appear) I;ve got one complaint about the service. It doesn’ t [...]

Thoughts on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

So the tiny tiny percentage chance that the Carpet/JPG book (which was fully transcribed and ready for translation to pretty much any electronic format by 10am on Friday, some 14 hours before the ‘official release’) was the best fake inthe world never happened. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is going to become one of [...]

And So It Begins – Harry Potter 7 and the Internet (Spoiler Free)

(Spoiler Free Post)
So that didn’t take long. I’m talking about Harry Potter and the Deathly Shadows being available on the internet to anyone who wants it. A sign that is indicative of how the internet is pretty much the perfect system for replicating something, for distributing something, and how broken DRM is.
Harry Potter, digitised in [...]

Airbus Congratulate Boeing – It’s Good To Talk!

Great to see that Airbus sent a message to Boeing for the launch of the 787 Dreamliner, and even better to see Boeing acknowledging this on their blog.
it can be difficult to pick the aircraft type you fly on, but when I’m offered my flight options, I will tend to go for a 777 [...]

That Funky Web 2.0 Button Bar At The Bottom Of The Blog

One of the things I’m getting mails (and tweets, and facebooks, and whatever is getting the Verb 2.0 treatment) is the icon strip I have running at the bottom of the blog. Go on, scroll down now…

…basically it’s a link out to all the myriad of sites where I have a presence. I’m assuming that [...]

Boris Johnson for London Mayor?

Yes the rumour mill is flying, but even if he does go forward, and people look at him and see a well crafted buffoon character, read this little gem from his website and ask yourself if he gets it…
I have now been writing columns in this newspaper for almost 20 years, and in the past [...]

20 Questions on Doctor Who (Behind the Sofa)

It’s Behind the Sofa’s annual Doctor Who season survey. Right, here we go…

1. Nice and easy to start – what was your favourite episode and why?
Probably Human Nature, because it was a real story, with jeporady, danger, and it’s just lovely. And has consequences.
2. There, nice gentle one that. Feeling splenal yet? Okay then, which [...]

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