http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk An infuriatingly infrequently updated reflection on the Internet, the US, and life in general Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:01:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was at the United Nations in Geneva last week to watch what was happening to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as it prepares for its third outing, this December in Hyderabad, India. Actually I was there for a different reason - an ICANN consultative meeting on the future of the ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2008/09/21/the-internet-governance-forum-%e2%80%93-third-time-lucky/ I am going to have to make a determined effort to update this blog more often. I always feel better when I am writing. Anyway, just as an update: I am currently in New Delhi in the Maurya Hotel following a busy conference week. I'll be heading to the airport ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2008/02/18/domainpulse-in-vienna/ I'm writing this in that neverworld of an airport waiting for a slightly delayed plane. And, of course, as it always is, that airport is Heathrow. I hate Heathrow. I've always hated Heathrow. Even as a kid, I remember the sensation of life ebbing away from you as you sit in ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2008/02/06/hey-ho-delhi-here-we-go/ It's been six weeks since I last posted here. That can't be good. And I have a ton of stuff to get out of my mind through my fingers. The one-day trivia brain of Los Angelenos; the US presidential election process; the insane bureaucracy and mind-control of this peculiar and ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2008/01/29/too-much-bloody-work/ I'm quite excited about the fact that Amazon has brought out a new ebook reader that it calls the Kindle. I haven't seen one in the real world but I am assuming with the effort they've put behind it that the screen technology is what it claims to be - ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2007/11/22/can-someone-please-get-to-the-ebook-reader-before-apple/ This morning I received an email from downloadinrainbows@waste.uk.com providing a link to a 48.3MB zipped file. Three minutes later I was listening to Radiohead's new album In Rainbows. I am listening to it now as I write this. What is particularly interesting about this is that Radiohead was entirely in charge ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2007/10/10/now-playing-radioheads-in-rainbows/ For those interested in Internet things - and in this case the sexy side of the Internet, Facebook and all that stuff - there is an interesting conference due to start in two hours in Ottawa, Canada. I know because I'm here and I'm on of two official bloggers. See can ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2007/10/03/the-participative-web-follow-my-web20-ramblings-at-the-oecd-meeting/ Kevin Murphy, a British IT journo based in the US, has done a review of my Sex.com book on his blog. He likes it. Which is nice since he is one of roughly three journalists in the world who understand the domain name system and its history. You can read it ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2007/08/01/review-of-sexcom-by-kev-murphy/ I finally joined Facebook last week. It was when the fifth person from a different sphere of friends send me an invite that I realised it had hit that point where I was most likely missing out on something. So I signed up. And Facebook is nice. I now have ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2007/07/20/am-i-keeping-in-touch-with-people-or-just-spreading-tedious-ditties/ This has to be good - I note that Amazon.com is now selling my book - Sex.com. Unfortunately there is still a four to six-week delivery date on it, which leads me to conclude that my publishers have yet to strike a deal with a US publisher. I also note on ... http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2007/07/03/amazoncom-now-selling-my-book/