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 [...]

It’s the weekend - a holiday weekend in the UK, no less - so the proper daily posting schedule on the new blog won’t start until Monday, after I’ve finished testing, making sure nothing looks too shit in Internet Explorer (are we still doing that?) and all that jazz.
But, between the time I rolled in [...]

Oh, you noticed.
Welcome, then, to BNTTP: OBOANMH - a new blog with a new and much more exciting purpose. Here’s the elevator explanation...
I’ve been blogging in various formats since - Jesus - 2001, before it was even called blogging, but always in an unfocussed and unstructured way. When I could be arsed, basically.
But then things [...]

Tonight is my last night in London before I leave for the mountains of Spain and six weeks of work, rest, work, play and work.
But before I go, and as I sit in this ridiculously huge three-room upgrade suite in Bloomsbury (£70 a night, for cash and winning charm), digesting the last of my Deliverance [...]

I promised that I’d post the email I received from the Clift in response to this.
I’m not sure who tipped them off to the blog (and the opening to the second paragraph is obviously bollocks, but I’m a sucker for that shit) but clearly what I wrote hit a nerve.
So here’s their email, and [...]

You’ll continue to forgive me - thank me, perhaps - for light blogging until Monday.
I’m busy putting various things in to place before I embark on stage two of my semi-permanent technomadic experiment. I’ve spent the last hour repairing my trusty maroon suitcase with my equally trusty Leatherman - and I’ve just received the first [...]

Hot on the heels of last week’s B.I.F.O.P., the first part of a new feature I’m calling ‘Paul Can’t Be Arsed To Post Anything Today So Does A Stupid Card Trick Instead, Tuesday’. The rules are simple...

More next time!
(Update: As requested by Emma - version two, in a format that can be frame-by-framed. Pft.)

Flicking, belatedly, through the current issue of Wired, I stumbled across The Human Giant’s guide to The Next Web-to-TV Stars.
The idea of the piece is simple: comedy web-to-TV cross-over stars, Human Giant predict the comedy web-to-TV stars of the future.
It’s an interesting enough list, although the implied premise - that these are shows that TV [...]

Now officially the most expensive city in the world, according to the current issue of Newsweek, and with an old Etonian as its new mayor, London is certainly having something of a crisis of cool. And by crisis, I mean absolute and total hemorrhaging.
Streets awash in politically bankrupt free-sheets that prove the maxim, “you can’t [...]

So, Tom Cruise has a new official website.
Just for the record, and to satisfy the ‘criticism/review’ defence, let me say this: it’s shit.
I mean, really bad. Just a bunch of photos and an over-long video and rambling biography bad. Designed by a student for drug money bad.
Seriously, Tom, if you’re going to have a badass [...]

After posting the first installment of Brilliant Ideas For Other People this morning, it suddenly occurred to me that there might be some cynics out there who would doubt me.
Cynics who would think that I wasn’t giving away these brilliant ideas through generosity or because I couldn’t be bothered to do anything with them, but [...]

Like most brilliant people, I often come up with brilliant ideas for businesses that I know I’ll never bother to do anything with.
And then, inevitably, a few months later, some other clown has the exact same idea and gets all the credit. And rightly so, I suppose. It was kind of inevitable that someone else [...]

Yesterday I finally met Rebecca, the lovely person who is handling the press for the book. She does press for Mil Millington too, so I’m in great hands.
Mil has a book our in July as well and sent me a very supportive email when he heard about my pub. date: “Way to dissipate their energy, [...]

Well, that was America. Good times, good times.
If you didn’t get a chance to join me on any of my fifty million stops - here’s what you missed...

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