I’d like to be able to register on the Channel 4 Dispatches web site forum to discuss the programme on right now. I’d like to. But guess what? You have to register (fine) but your registration “may take up to 24 hours to be approved. If you do not verify your account within four days then your account will be deleted and you will have to register again.” Oh dear.
The following is an article by a journalist colleague, Robert Dwek. He doesn’t have a blog, but as this is such a good article (first published in Marketing Week magazine), I offered to post it here. Enjoy. Read on… Are you familiar with something called MSM? Do you like fisking? Do you frequent the Blogosphere? No, I’m not referring to exotic sexual practices in a subterranean night club. I am
UPDATE: The following is a post I put up in 2005 , attacking Paul Carr, Guardian columnist and internet entrepreneur. As much as I think that in journalistic terms he was totally out of order PR-ing his company in his column (see below for the details) I also don’t want this post to stand forever about how I feel about Carr and his ventures. There will be other things he
I’m at TED.com, the annual uber-conference about the convergence between technology, advertising and design. Although this year it’s very much about the affect technologies can have on global development, social collaboration, media disruption and the like. This one is billed at TED Global, held in Oxford, although it’s very much and American style event – not least because getting press accreditation has been a nightmare! Just heard an amazing chat
I appear to have encouraged Foundcity.net to launch in the UK. Yay! See here for the first ever post.
Dear terrorists. Think you are going to scare us, huh? Kindly fuck off.
(I’ll write this up just as soon as I’ve recovered from standing up for 12 hours with no food and little water. Meantime, bloody AOL are hocking the one downloadable track from the concert on Windows machines only! Forcing others to go to bit torrent etc).
I went to the O2 Wireless Festival tonight in Hyde Park (see Flickr images, left). I’ll be brief. Babyshambles were OK. You can see the appeal. Endearingly shambolic. Kasabian were in a league of their own however. Truly, the Happy Mondays for the noughties, but with a little more edge, and seriousness. They will go far. Killer basslines and hooks. I love a bass player who just stands there and