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I’ve been sent this. Just one of those magic moments. Thank god someone was quick with a camera. The picture is self-explanatory. The TV newsman is Marc Brown of ABC in case you’re interested.

I manage to squeeze in a quick trip to California to finish up my Sex.com book and everything goes crazy.
I arrived in San Francisco an hour ago to no less than four voicemails and 50 non-spam emails – in the spate of 10 hours. I knew ICANN was going to announce its MoU late on [...]

My last five posts have all been about ICANN and frankly that’s not enough for any man. So I thought I’d interject with some humourous light relief. Well, sort of.

I’ve just been pointed to a cracking little story on ZDNet. It was the anniversary of 50 years of the hard disk yesterday. So someone at ZD decided to do a rewrite of a famous Monty Python sketch in honour.
Unless you know the sketch and unless you are a bit of a geek, you will [...]

Last night, as I was scrabbling around by the front door in the dark with a torch and a piece of fuse wire, my letterbox started juttering away behind me. Even the postmen manage to deliver before 9pm, so I was intrigued. And sure enough it was the latest newsletter (number 6 this year) from [...]

The webcast for the [tag]NTIA[/tag] meeting in Washington has just started and it is playing, rather pleasantly, Stevie Wonder with a background noise of people in the meeting.
I love the idea of the room being filled with the funky vibes of Mr Wonder, as US government officials groove with the assorted Net experts, but sadly [...]

Last night, for reasons I’m still unsure of, I attended the [tag]New Statesman[/tag]’s New Media [tag]awards[/tag] at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park.
I am now trying to remember the last awards ceremony I went to, because at it I decided I would never go to one again. Ah yes, it was the PPA Awards in [...]

Steven Forrest – the hopelessly biased blogger of Free2Innovate (aka Free2Fabricate) – has been outed as Bill Hobbs, a right-wing political blogger who receives payment for anonymously pushing corporate lines.
It’s long been known that Steven Forrest is a pseudonym and it has been widely assumed he was in the pay of VeriSign for the simple [...]

The strangest thing. There is an enormous thunder and rain storm going on – as it has been all night – following a week of unusually hot weather in the UK. So far so normal for a British summer.
What is less usual is that half an hour ago – at 5am to be exact – [...]

ICANN Marrakech is over, save the Board meeting. And this fact was – as it always is – sufficient reason for everyone to head to the bar and mull things over while consuming (un)healthy quantities of booze.
What was the upshot of this week-long meeting in Morocco? Well, the general bottom-up consensus was that not much [...]