machine-envy

This week’s column for the New Statesman is on the Google New’s defeat in the Belgian courts. It’s all you’re going to get for a fortnight out of the NS, since apparently, my column’s being turned into ad space next week. Charming.
Last year, back when a girl could get a hotel room and a £500 […]

Yesterday was the official launch of a website I helped create earlier this year, ChinaDialogue (Pictures from the launch here). ChinaDialogue is the world’s first truly bilingual interactive publishing platform (I’m not really allowed to call it a blog), as not only do articles appear in English and Chinese, but so do the comments underneath […]

My new column for openDemocracy comes ahead of international Day Against DRM (next Tuesday), and starts a thread of thought I want to pursue further - should we fight for our digital rights as “consumers” or “citizens”? I had an interesting conversation over coffee with someone who could be described as a veteran political insider […]

I had another paper published. Its a brief version of the final chapter of my thesis, which was presented by my supervisor at the integrative bionformatics workshop. The frustrating thing about this is that the reviewers of my thesis considered it the most interesting part. Yet every single peer review it got thought […]

Yes, who would have thought it. Machine-envy is on the top ten google hits for anonymity for paedophiles. In fact, Becky has two (count ‘em) hits in the top ten. I wonder what the adsense value is in that….
Just another day watching the statraq data for this site. But stattraq is […]

I picked up a copy of Designing Pornotopia in the Arnolfini. Its an excellent read - a collection of essays on various themes (including the eponymous one) but centred around visual culture. In fact, I think the title may do the book an injustice. The topics are much wider than pornotopia. […]

…long live miniature golf.

I’m interviewing Shaun Woodward, UK Minister for Tourism and the Creative Industries next Tuesday, for a special on the computer and video games industry being run by the New Statesman next month. If anybody’s got any burning questions they want to put to him, let me know…

Yuck. Why so bad? Read this (surely the most high-fallutin’ headline of all time).
Will be writing on this over the coming weeks. Any more info or research gratefully received.

This week’s column in the New Statesman is a little dance around the grave of the music industry:
“Speaking as a reformed music journalist, it’s been fun watching the industry gasp its last breaths. First it sent peer-to-peer file-sharing underground with the closure of Napster in 2001. Now, it is suing its own fans. The music […]