Told you it would run and run.
Yesterday, Tom Watson MP generously linked to my competition to find a convincing defense of copyright theft (which in turn was a follow up to my earlier post which was… etc).
Within a matter of hours Tom’s link had attracted a couple of spirited replies – including one from ‘Labour [...]

It seems that Michael Arrington’s proposal that copyright law be re-thought – in the same way Roe v Wade means a pregnancy can be re-thought – will continue to run and run. First came an article on Silicon Alley Insider by Hank ‘not that Hank Williams’ Williams in which he claimed, quite rightly, that Arrington [...]

After yesterday’s posting fest – Haikurious, Flimericks and pointing out how wrong Michael Arrington is about intellectual property – only to have Rebecca at Orion suggest that I was somehow on holiday, I decided to show her who’s boss by doing absolutely jack shit all today.
Ok, well, that’s not entirely true – in reality Robert, [...]

Now that I no longer use Facebook, I had to rely on Sarah Bee to alert me to the latest – how you say – meme to be rocking planet Zuckerberg.
They’re called Flimericks and, as the name suggests, they involve boiling down classic films into limerick form.
Of course, I’m currently hopelessly devoted to haiku, but [...]

I’m seriously starting to suspect that Michael Arrington was abused by a copyright lawyer as a child.
His latest posting on Techcrunch siding with thieves against original content producers comes in response to Google’s argument that Viacom’s suit against YouTube is a ‘threat to online communications’.
In a full-of-sound-and-fury opinion piece called ‘It’s Time To Rethink Copyright [...]

Techcrunch, Mashable, New Media Guardian, Digg, Youtube, Gawker, news sites, blogs, TGP porn sites… seriously, who has the time to keep up with everything that’s happening on the Internet every day?
Not me and not you – those hours refreshing Twitter aren’t going to waste themselves, right?
If only there was a way to find out [...]

Another proper post to follow later, but first – we’re having a barbeque in the mountains. The lack of firelighters posed a problem but we solved it by burning Rob’s copy of Private Eye. The smell of burning tired old jokes fills the Spanish air..

Keep an eye on the Flickr stream for more hot [...]

Since I’ve been gone you’ve been lost without a trace /You dream at night you can only see my face /You look around but it’s me you can’t replace…
This was actually an idea that we – myself, Robert, Scott, Michelle, Alex and some others – came up with in San Francisco, but which stalled when [...]

Like in all failed long term relationships, this break-up was long overdue.
I should have cut the cord ages ago, when I first started to lose interest. When I realised that we were heading in different directions and that, apart from to play the odd game of Scrabble, I really couldn’t be bothered to even [...]

It’s raining in the mountains of Spain and we’re listening to the Suga Babes covering the Arctic Monkeys, which is wrong, as the phrase goes, on so many levels.
Also wrong is watching Eurovision on Spanish television, which was our entertainment last night. You really do realise how shit Eurovision is when you don’t have Wogan [...]