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Response to the New York Times

May 6, 2004

After talking to Joi and the other guys in #joiito, I decided that so appallingly inaccurate was Seth Schiesel 's piece on IRC, that it warranted an email to his editor, Kevin McKenna. Below is my email to Mr McKenna, and the incisive response I received from the New York Times. Dear Mr McKenna, I […]

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IRC: home to l33t haX0r pir4t3z

May 6, 2004

Ross Mayfield blogs about the New York Times article that lays into IRC as the next big internet evil (registration required). Apparently IRC is a hotbed for illegal file swappers, hackers and child pornographers: It is “the place where people with something to hide go to do business”. The angle taken by Seth Schiesel, author […]

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Lessig in London

April 30, 2004

I appear to be having a bit of a run on visits to London at the moment. Not that I'm complaining – it's a good excuse to escape Dorset. On 27th May I'll be going up to see digital rights expert and author of Free Culture Lawrence Lessig speak to the London International Festival of […]

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Read it whilst it's still around

April 30, 2004

Guy sells wedding dress on ebay.

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April 24, 2004

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Submit to my superior power and intellect, pathetic chicken

April 13, 2004

Subservient Chicken (TM Burger King) says something scary about American culture, but I don't have time to delineate what.

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Finished culture

April 12, 2004

AKMA?s project to have all of Lawrence Lessig?s new book, Free Culture, read by bloggers and made available for free download is now complete. You can find AKMA?s posts about this project, in reverse chron order here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. My past posts about it are here and here. The […]

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Gmail gets a savaging

April 12, 2004

If you really want to see someone take a new service apart, try Mark?s deconstruction of Google?s latest offering, Gmail. And he only looks at it in terms of accessibility, without ever going into the privacy implications of having your email searched and catalogued by your email provider (particularly a provider that may already have […]

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Next President of the USA

April 2, 2004

From Neil Gaiman's blog, a tidbit too choice not to pass on in full: Well, on the good side, I would appear to be the next President of the USA at Presidential Deathmatch 2004. On the downside, I have Lord Havelock Vetinari as my Vice-President, Terry Pratchett's Patrician. Which means that my main function as […]

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Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, Chapter 8: Transformers

March 29, 2004

Ok, my contribution to AKMA's project to convert Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture into an audio form is now done and dusted, and here it is for your delectation – Chapter 8: Transformers. Please don't link to this file directly because it'll kill my hosting. I'll put up a link to the various mirrors […]

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On the other hand

March 28, 2004

Being awake at this ludicrous hour has meant that I bumped into AKMA, and now I'm officially taking part in the transformation of Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture from the written to the spoken word. I'll be reading Chapter 8. I'll post the link when it's up.

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Sock Monkeys (200 out of 1,863)

April 24, 2003

I got side-tracked this evening. I was going to write a long and impressive rant about why I despise the reprehensible stealth tax that is the national lottery. Instead, I'm going to bring you Sock Monkeys (200 out of 1,863) (via Neil Gaiman's blog. Again. See, I don't have time to surf much these days!), […]

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I'd've posted this last night if the computer had let me

April 19, 2003

Well, my work ethic has come back to haunt me. Here I am, sitting in my parents’ lounge, looking out on a gloriously sunny spring afternoon, with a heap of work to do (despite the fact that it’s a bank holiday and frankly I shouldn’t be doing anything) but absolutely no inclination to do it […]

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Not a truer word said

April 14, 2003

Paul Carr on the demise of Salon.com, from The Guardian Online: “I feel really sorry for anyone trying to raise funds to launch a subscription-based website in the current climate – it would be easier to get funding for a new pan-European fashion retail brand led by two Swedish ex-models.” Hah. Don't I know it. […]

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