Tom Coates, who used to work for the BBC and is now at Yahoo, really lays into Ashley Highfield, the supposed visionary leader of the Beeb’s new media efforts. (Euan Semple, the BBC’s former head of knowledge management, agrees with Tom’s assessment.) An excerpt:
If Ashley Highfield really is leading one of the most powerful and […]
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…starts today. It’s also my brother John’s 26th birthday. We haven’t shared our celebrations for about a decade now, and it doesn’t suck any less as the years go on. Still: Antoine, Paris, and an ice cream sundae for breakfast. Can’t complain.
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Like so many members of London’s haute bourgeoisie, Sheba is deeply attached to a mythology of herself as street-smart. She always howls when I refer to her as upper class. (She’s middle, she insists; at the very most, upper-middle.) She loves to come shopping with me in the Queenstown street market or the Shop-A-Lot next […]
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a venue: The British Bankers’ Club in Menlo Park will be hosting as many people as we can cram into the upstairs private room on the night of August 7th. Sign up at Upcoming, send me an email to let me know you’re coming, or just show up on the […]
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Waiting for a train at FDR
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
Our holiday is going well. But last night, I received some very disturbing news from Ohio, and it seems a little less easy to be carefree today. The thunderstorm last night seemed entirely appropriate.
Not that it cooled things off, as we’d hoped. Nope - it’s still […]
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When I was in San Francisco last month, one of the best things that happened to me was meeting BrainJams’ Kristie Wells and Chris Heuer. These are fiercely intelligent, open, unpretentious, generous people who are doing incredible things through the power of their own personal networks.
One such example of this is the Rent an […]
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Hello Kitty fashion, Les Galeries Lafayette
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You can see a hand in motion on the left side of the photo; that’s a shop assistant at Les Galeries Lafayette freaking out at me for taking a picture. It seems that, with this photograph, I could steal the innovative designs (a plain t-shirt with Hello […]
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I’ve been tagged by Antony Mayfield to give my five must-have blogging tools; let’s see if I can answer him before my laptop battery runs out…
1) Reading: Like Antony, I use a combination of Firefox and Bloglines (read RSS feeds on Bloglines.com, open any interesting links in new Firefox browser tabs) to catch up on […]
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Antoine’s grandfather
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This particular photograph of Antoine’s grandfather hangs in our home. At the huge market market at Porte de Montreuil, Antoine walked up to a random box of books and plucked one from the centre; it was one of the hundred-plus that his grandfather, Exbrayat, wrote. It was nice to see a […]
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"The Cry of the Taxpayer"
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Paris: It’s not just for cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
Antoine found this yesterday when he popped out to make some phone calls. Nice to know there are some of ‘our people’ in this city.
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A letter I wrote to the editor of my hometown newspaper, about a series of drug raids in Ross County (Ohio) earlier this week, has been published. As you may have guessed, I think the ‘war on drugs’ is pretty lame.
I’m square enough not to take drugs; a (woefully executed) banana split is about […]
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We leave for Paris in the morning. I actually have a lot of work to do during this holiday, so will probably be writing at my Vox blog (which I am really enjoying as a ‘user’ - ugh - and which is all Paris-themed for the week) and posting pics at my Flickr.
If I owe […]
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That’s not from a neo-nazi site, but from Daily Kos. Yeah, America is scary, and if you’re in Kos’s tribe, you’re one of the reasons why.
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So Jon Stewart has picked up on the fact that Ted Stevens is an idiot. That’s cool, and it helps to spread the news about the issue of net neutrality.
The thought that I really hope crosses the minds of people who hear Stevens, the man chairing the Senate committee which is trying to decide […]
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