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I’ve just seen that a review of my Sex.com book has popped up on the New Statesman.
It’s not very long and it’s taken a tack which I was surprised by, but I didn’t think the New Statesman would cover it as it tends to prefer more weighty and political books. Nonetheless, I think […]

I’ve just been sent this pic by my mate Ross who snapped it with his phone at WHSmith in Heathrow airport. It shows my book resting at number 12 in the Business and Management section. Obviously there’s been some terrible error and the staff has mistakenly put it as “12″ rather than both “1″ […]

If anyone every wondered whether the Internet was vital, or if the new Internet Governance Forum suffered from a lack of interest, worry no more.
Next week, a series of events will be held in Geneva covering the follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society and most importantly a preparatory meeting for […]

The next real big step for the Internet in revolutionising this planet is, I am convinced, mass accurate translation so that the language barriers that have divided and enclosed the world ever since we as a species first started talking, will be if not exactly cast away, certain diminished.
And so I have installed a […]

The user-generated content finder Digg may well have just dug its own grave with a defiant message to Hollywood lawyers, posted by its founder on the site’s blog yesterday.

There is another very short crack out there for the High Definition DVD standard - much shorter that the infamous DeCSS crack released in 1999 - […]

I’ve just stuck up a third poll in the space of a week, so I figured it was time to review the results of the previous two and outline the third. (As if anyone really cares, but it makes me feel better.)
The first was about ICANN and what I should do in my new […]

Okay, so here it is - the final Sex.com book cover. My publisher and I agreed a compromise on the tagline first thing this morning. It will be: “One Domain, Two Men, Twelve Years and the Brutal Battle for the Jewel in the Internet’s Crown.” At one point in the discussion, while discussing the […]

The tagline for my book on the Sex.com saga has to be with the publishers on Thursday i.e. in two days.
We - meaning me and the publisher - are still undecided so here is your chance to have some fun and help me out. There are a list below of the sort of […]

I am having a bloody busy time of it at the moment. I lost most of last week due to an appalling cold and chest infection (which is still nagging me now), I have my publisher breathing down my neck asking for my Sex.com book back with the copy editor’s changes included (to be […]

I’m trying out some new Web2.0 stuff called Plazes, which tracks me as I move around.
I’ll tie it into this blog in a minute, but in the meantime, here is the URL to follow if you want to know where I am at any give time:
http://beta.plazes.com/user/KierenMcCarthy
I have some code. Let’s see if this works…

Download […]