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I love it when large corporates have their insane bullying tactics defeated and exposed. I remember for example having a pitched battle with Warner Brothers when they started threatening to sue children for having Harry Potter websites.
But even better, and much funnier, is the story which I have just comes across today where the company [...]

I forgot to mention yesterday that I had an article on IDNs in The Guardian: “How engineers tamed the internet’s Tower of Babel“, which was basically an attempt to explain one of the other sides of the Internationalised Domain Names by referring to Patrik Fältström’s comment at the IGF that the technical side of things [...]

Nominet very narrowly scraped the 90 percent it needed to be able to expand beyond the .uk registry this morning in Oxford.

In fact, 90.97 percent – which in reality meant that a Nominet member or two either way would have seen the whole thing fall over. I’m very pleased this got through. I think [...]

Monday 20 November 2006 will go down as one of those days in which I was prevented from doing anything useful through the necessity of doing a whole number of utterly forgettable mundane jobs.
Somehow today I missed the opportunity to meet and interview some of the big names in this new fabled Web2.0, plus failed [...]

Following a review of the winners and nominees of the British Documentary Awards today, I have been struck by how little the documentary industry has grasped the Internet.
It strikes me as unbelievably short-sighted not to use the Internet when film-makers spend most of their lives trying to make people aware of their films, travelling across [...]

I watched the British Documentary Awards on BBC Four last night, and they were of course fascinating and as usual made me want to get hold of copies of most of them.
But what continues to fascinate me is how absolutely clueless documentary and film-makers are about the Internet. So here is a very quick [...]

Anyone who can make even the vaguest claim to be a geek, and certainly anyone in the IT industry will know Slashdot: a remarkable, innovative and popular website that covers virtually every angle of the technology market, from amusing tabloid tales to in-depth technical papers.
But while Slashdot’s star has been in the ascendency for more [...]

The website of paid-for corporate blogger Steven Forrest, Free2Innovate.net, has disappeared from the Net.
Which is a shame because I was planning to archive all the biased nonsense – written by PR man and pseudo-journalist Bill Hobbs – before the domain expires on 19 December.
Mr Hobbs, who admits making a chunk of his income being [...]

I’ve just seen this while having a quick trawl round the Net – a video of two Americans queuing up for hours to buy a PlayStation 3, and then taking it outside where everyone is still queuing and smashing it up with a sledgehammer.
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Obviously on one level this is complete idiocy. But I also have [...]

I mentioned about a month ago how I was considering setting up a second blog so I could more easily separate my personal and professional life. And yesterday, twice, I was reminded that there is a bit of an unusual overlap when I spoke to two people: one, the spokesman for a company I regularly [...]