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Finally the mid-tier IT company that you’ve been battling with all year gives you some good news – the CEO is coming to the UK in three weeks. “He’s got some news, not sure what it is yet. Word is, it’s a European acquisition. You’ve got a half day for media stuff, the rest of his time here is …read the rest of this article

I knew the Metro was owned by Associated Newspapers, but it now seems to have turned into a facsimile of the Daily Mail.
The hard porn lurking on teenage blog sites says their story today in the paper edition.

The vast majority of blogs on top social websites contain potentially offensive material, a study shows.
The pages on sites such as MySpace, YouTube …read the rest of this article

Apparently, it’s worth a trillion million dollars. What could go wrong?

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My colleagues and friends Mike Butcher and Sam Sethi, the co-editors of Vecosys, have parted ways as business partners for the time being. Happily, there are no bad feelings.
Mike will work on his tbites Technology 2.0 blog, as well as his multifarious freelance and consultancy gigs, including NMK Forum 07 (book now).
Sam is relaunching Vecosys across Europe under a new, …read the rest of this article

I was at a strategy meeting on Wednesday of about 10 people for a forthcoming event – not NMK, for once (readers sigh with relief), but with a sister organisation (readers scrabble for something else to click), Dynamo London, that’s about our digital creative industry.
Anyway, mum, it was a really interesting meeting and could have spelled the first time that …read the rest of this article

I’m opposed to this code of conduct for bloggers idea. I quite like the whole freedom of speech thing on blogs and believe in the ability of people, by and large, to do the right thing. There’s already legislation against threatening behaviour and I don’t think the proposed code, however it ends up, will do much to tackle anonymous bullies. …read the rest of this article

Despite a few years in technology journalism, and about, what?, 40 hardware reviews to my credit, my main interest nowadays in things non-internet is that it works. Things stopped working today and these are the three things I bought from PC World – my first visit in four years – and the story behind them.
Unexpectedly, perhaps – credit is due …read the rest of this article