machine-envy

Well, my letter (see 2.11.2004) never got printed in The Times, I guess their mailbag was too full of people complaining about the demise of the broadsheet edition. I did, however, get a lovely email reply from the journalist who wrote the original article, reproduced below:
Hi Becky,
Thanks for your letter regarding the Cliff copyright story […]

Techtank have published my article on security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer and the release of the new, open source browser, Mozilla Firefox today. It doesn’t look like they’ve credited me, but I promise it was me wot wrote it.
Apologies, reg req’d.

Yesterday, Murdoch snoozpaper The Times hinted at the wonderful news that The British Library may inherit the record collection of the late, great John Peel. According to the article “it would be the largest and most significant collection deposited with the national Sound Archive at the British Library”. This 2000 article from the Guardian gives […]

My brief report of Paula le Dieu’s address to the Royal Television Society on the Creative Archive last week was published in Guardian Online yesterday. For transcripts and recordings of the event, have a look at these links from bOING bOING.