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I haven’t posted anything on this blog for over a week. Why? Because I’ve been at my first ICANN meeting on the other side – working as ICANN staff – and I simply didn’t have time to get around a post. Maybe I should have made the time. But when posting is something you would [...]

People who work in and around the pharmaceutical industry.
Imagine having all that spam appear at first glance to be legitimate email.
How about Pfizer executives? Every mention of Viagra draws your attention.
I am at the IETF meeting in the Hilton in Prague. But much as I would like to stick my head in, it is [...]

I’m in Brussels trying to sort out exactly what I can do in my job in ICANN.
I have had no time to write anything because I’ve been trying to speak to everyone and trying to get as much out there and suck up as much as I can.
With a brain full of information I am [...]

Just seen this on a site called Easy Webber – a Top Ten guide to the worst domain names out there.
It’s basically smutty innuendo but also oddly amusing in one or two cases. For example, the number one slot goes to the website that aims to provide agent details for various famous people. Unfortunately [...]

I’m a bit late to this one, with Charles Arthur, Andrew Grant-Adamson, Martin Stabe; and Roy Greenslade all drawing collective gasps and stiffling laughter, but just in case there is anyone interested in the UK media that reads this blog but none of those above…
My god The Independent doesn’t get the Internet.
It has started – [...]

In a redesign last month, the site I news edit for Techworld.com started including a nice big pic on its front page for the lead news story.
I change the lead on average once or twice a day just so it doesn’t get stale and so visitors that may look at it in the morning and [...]

I’m just watching the webcast of the ICANN open forum due to start in a second at Sao Paulo and the techies are playing Patti La Belle.
It’s no mistake, and Patti has a few things she wants to share with conference attendees from ICANN’s perspective. “Together we will live in paradise,” she explains, [...]

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’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 [...]