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Kissing Kurt
As a parent, you hope that your children will like some of the things you like – so it’s nice to see Baby Bigmouth’s love of music, and her fascination with books (for now she’s fascinated by them as objects. Nine months is a bit young for reading, heh). But yesterday she excelled herself: she…
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ASDA wants to edit your magazines
Bloody hell. Asda has come under fire from independent magazine publishers for proposed alterations to distribution arrangements that include the supermarket being given editorial space in the publications it stocks… Asda’s demands include a request for two pages of editorial or advertising space each month in titles of the company’s choosing. And there’s an increase…
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AOL to AOL bloggers: stop blogging (or at least, don’t expect to be paid)
It seems that AOL’s intrepid army of bloggers has been told to stop posting in order to save money – so some of them are continuing to blog unpaid.
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Cory Doctorow on the file sharing crackdown
An interesting and typically inflammatory piece from Mr Doctorow in the Guardian: The original Napster had a fine proposition: they would charge their users for signing onto their network and write a cheque for as-many-billions-as-you-like to the record industry every quarter… The record industry sued them into a smoking hole instead… [here is] the tried-and-true…
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Let’s just nuke the planet from orbit
OK, I know I’m talking about the Daily Mail here, but the comments on this story make me want to kill people. Story first: When Suzanne Richards and Sarah Dobinson decided to sell their £650,000 home, they expected professional service from their estate agents. Instead, they were left feeling ‘insulted and violated’ after a staff…
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Why I’d buy a dedicated e-book reader if somebody invented a good one
I’ve just received my monthly threat from the newsagent, and it seems that my newspaper habit – that is, my one daily newspaper and two sunday newspapers – is costing £12.55 per week. Given that nine times out of ten the paper doesn’t turn up until I’ve been up and about for an hour or…
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Four things I learnt on the internet today
“The success of an anti-piracy campaign is measured in the number of hours it buys before the digital dam breaks” and 38 hours is considered a success. The LA Times on attempts to prevent fanboys watching camcorder copies of The Dark Knight. The crackdown on file sharing may be bad news for people who don’t…
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Think first, publish later
Ian Betteridge argues that blogs aren’t as self-correcting as yer Scobles like to claim: Watching the development and correction of stories, there’s something interesting that I’ve always observed. When someone posts something controversial (and wrong) few of the sites which post about that original post also post a correction. And thus begins a classic network…
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One of these tags is not like the others
Amazon would like you to tag products. This screenshot is from the Xbox 360 HDMI cable.
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Instapaper: a potentially brilliant iPhone application
Of all the iPhone apps kicking around, the one I’m liking best is Instapaper. It’s a simple solution to a genuine problem I have: there are loads of things online I’d like to read, but when I come across them I just don’t have time to read them – so I bookmark them and immediately…