Posts from June 2008
London calling: farewell to the Valle (June 29th, 2008)
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
Games without frontiers (with oranges) (June 28th, 2008)
On pain of death at the hands of RFW&N, my time in the Valle has been dominated by hard work and early nights. And yet, somehow, amongst all the toil, we’ve still found time to have the occasional very small – and tightly regulated – bit of fun.
People who bit the hand that feeds them, also bit… (June 28th, 2008)
“People who work in publishing today are by a huge majority young, female graduates from good universities who have an absolute laser-like focus on advancing their career. They are very dedicated, very smart and absolutely fucking terrifying. These people think nothing of arranging a meeting at 9.00 a.m. 9.00 a.m.! To me that’s not a [...]
Book Extra: Haiku’s who (June 27th, 2008)
“Arriving late, I’d just missed Angus Bankes’s presentation but made it just in time to see Michael Smith take the platform. In his opinion, The Next Big Thing would be companies that kept things simple rather than building complicated web services which most people couldn’t understand and wouldn’t use. An interesting view from a man [...]
It’s not all work, work, work (June 26th, 2008)
Yahoo’s Yang! is back
New Book Extra: Let’s take a look at The Gallery (June 26th, 2008)
“‘Double Scaatches for everyone,’ he shouted, to no one on particular. ‘Hey, Paul, you don’t mind getting them in do you?’ He threw his Amex card across the table at me; it landed on my lap.” A busy day today, all told. Michelle Act(i)on-Bond and Anna Melville-James have come to visit us in the Valle for [...]
The Prologue: Yours for the downloading (June 25th, 2008)
“I’m hiding at the back of the room getting slowly drunk with the event’s organiser, an entrepreneur who helped raise a ridiculous sum of money for a business networking site that had projected revenues of precisely zero. His mantra, he tells me, is ‘revenue is the enemy’. It’s not clear what that means, but I [...]
Michael Smith and other stories (June 23rd, 2008)
‘Why would you tell me anything? It’s not like I’ve come all the way across London and paid eight fucking pounds for a rum and coke just to hear about your idea. You just keep it to yourself and enjoy your orange juice. Cunt.‘ So, Eris left the Valle on Thursday, heading for New York and [...]
Guest blogger: You can take the geek out of the city… (June 20th, 2008)
Houseguest Eris writes…
Let the whoring begin (June 19th, 2008)
Ok, I’m back in the room1, and from hereonout things start to get really interesting. |
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