Downtime

As you may know, I launched the news­stand magazine What Laptop & Handheld PC (as it was ori­gin­ally called) back in the day — 1999, to be exact. And I have grave mis­giv­ings about the whole affair.

One of the most popular mar­keting messages that advert­isers were pushing then about mobile tech­no­logy, and they still are

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The Future of Newspapers

I’ve been thinking about the future of news­pa­pers a fair bit over the last few weeks, because we’ve been pre­paring a panel event on just that topic. It’s involved a range of reading and on-​​​​record and off-​​​​record con­ver­sa­tions with a load of people involved with news­pa­pers — readers, editors, pundits and the man on the Clapham Omnibus.

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Starting a Blog

It takes more written words than it’s worth, so here we go with videos from people who have more talent than me and have taken the time.

…with Blogger, which has become a great platform for casual blogging nowadays, and is cer­tainly the easiest place to start, much

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About this New Theme

[This post is rather obvi­ously out-​​​​of-​​​​date.]

The most radical change you’ll see if you get to the site, rather than read it on RSS, is that it’s single-​​​​column. That cuts out a lot of the stuff that was here before, e.g.:

recent comments blogroll widgets

So to tackle those:

Recent Comments: To be honest, I write this

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The Selfish Agenda: BitTorrent

Sue me now: I have used BitTorrent to sample stuff I was not in a position to buy or was not sure whether I wanted to buy. It’s been piracy, legally, but my defences, which I am sure wouldn’t see me win in court, but which might help here are:

(a) I buy more music and games than most

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