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First day in a Tuscan spa: Kieren’s holiday blog
3 Comments Published by Kieren 1 year, 3 months ago in Journalism Wed 15 Aug: Fonteverde Spa resort, Tuscany
So I’ve been feeling very tired and grumpy of late. I was also being very apathetic, having to force myself to do stuff. It took a few days but I then recognised I had been here before and the simple answer was that I needed a holiday […]
Review of Sex.com by Kev Murphy
1 Comment Published by Kieren 1 year, 3 months ago in Internet, Journalism, Sex.com 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 all here.
I like the […]
Am I keeping in touch with people - or just spreading tedious ditties?
7 Comments Published by Kieren 1 year, 4 months ago in Internet, Journalism, Technology 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 26 friends and they […]
BBC comedy Hyperdrive - good radio comedy but on TV
1 Comment Published by Kieren 1 year, 4 months ago in Funny, JournalismI’ve just accidentally caught the first episode of what I’ve just found out (thanks to the Net) is the second series of a space comedy. It’s called Hyperdrive, is on BBC2 and stars most of the new generation of British TV comedy stars, including Nick Frost of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz […]
The New Seven Wonders of the World
4 Comments Published by Kieren 1 year, 4 months ago in Journalism
About nine months ago, I wrote a post about there being an effort by UNESCO to decide a new set of Seven Wonders of the World. Well, the results are in.
And, by popular vote, they are:
Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Christ Redeemer, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan
The Roman Colloseum, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India
I sent […]
Amazon.com now selling my book
7 Comments Published by Kieren 1 year, 4 months ago in Internet, Journalism, Technology, Sex.com 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 a quick perusal of […]
In case anyone is wondering why I haven’t been calling, emailing, insisting people come out for drinks, and so on, I have been on a three-and-a-half-week tour covering New York, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico - all for ICANN. A very busy week-long meeting has caused me to take three days off without any […]
London Olympics logo faces wrath of Net democracy
9 Comments Published by Kieren 1 year, 5 months ago in Funny, Internet, JournalismThis is going to be an interesting one. The logo for the London Olympics in 2012 was unveiled on Monday and it has met almost universal disdain. And for good reason - look at it - it’s hideous. Or perhaps grotesque is a better word. Anyway, the BBC has a poll on it where […]
So much for Google translation
2 Comments Published by Kieren 1 year, 5 months ago in Internet, Journalism, Technology Three weeks ago, I added a translation module to this blog as an experiment with automated translation software.
The technology worked although thanks to some readers of different nationalities, it quickly became clear that the translations were not great - and in some cases barely comprehensible. Part of the reason is that I write in […]
Sunday Telegraph review of Sex.com
2 Comments Published by Kieren 1 year, 5 months ago in Internet, Journalism, Sex.com There was a review in the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend, so I did something I’ve only done once before in my life and bought it.
I knew it didn’t bode well when they managed to misspell my name not once but twice in the piece (in fact it’s not spelt right anywhere). Once […]
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