What an odd belated Christmas present.
I’ve just received transcripts of two reviews of The Book, that appeared in Australian newspapers when it was published there last month.
I’m not really sure what to do with them, so here they are. The first seven words of the first para of the Age review basically sum up my [...]
At this exact time last year, drowning in deadline hell for the book, I wrote the post below.
An amazing number of things have changed in the intervening weeks and months, and in so many ways I’m an an entirely different person. And yet, reading it back, sitting at the very same desk in my parents’ [...]
With Mr and Mrs 1938 Media at Twinterval, taken by Parky.
This was the first draft of my Guardian column this week, before I found out that Charles had already written a piece about the Arrington/LeMeur spat. Shame to waste it...
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In April 1971, martial law was declared in Saigon.
The city had fallen to the North Vietnamese and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger had announced [...]
Next task: work out how to change the static frame on Vimeo.
Hallo from Iceland from Paul Carr on Vimeo.
It’s sad, but utterly fitting that George W. Bush’s presidency should be bookended with attacks by a pretzel and a pair of shoes.
I’ve been work displacing amusing myself on Twitter this evening by trying to come up with a title for the film dramatisation of today’s brutal attack. This was prompted by Alex Tew’s exquisite [...]
Live from LeWeb, and hosted by TechCrunch’s very own Mike Butcher, a delightfully rambling edition of the Butcher’s Bunch podcast featuring me, and some people who actually knew what they were talking about...
From: “Cohen, Benjamin”
Date: 9 December 2008 11:19:07 GMT
To: “Cohen, Benjamin”
Subject: Channel4 News Exclusive: Wikipedia founder considers legal action after site is blocked in Britain
CREDIT CHANNEL 4 NEWS WITH ALL MATERIAL USED
CHANNEL 4 NEWS EXCLUSIVE: WIKIPEDIA FOUNDER CONSIDERED LEGAL ACTION AGAINST INTERNET WATCH FOUNDATION AFTER BLOCK ON SITE- CALLS FOR REFORM OF SYSTEM
The founder of Wikipedia has told Channel4 News that the he [...]
Bonjour! Je suis arrivé à Paris pour Le Web - et il fait fucking froid, I can tell you.
I arrived on the Eurostar which, by the way, is a really painless way to travel; no airport transfer bullshit, lots of room to work and then just a quick Metro hop to the hotel. The current Sterling [...]
Finally, after about a million years of negotiation and a tiny bit more money than I’d have preferred, I am the proud owner of my own name.
Which is to say, I’ve finally been able to buy PaulCarr.com from the domain name speculator who sucked it up after the original owner - Paul Carr the actor [...]
Be careful what you wish for, right?
In my Guardian column this week I challenged the Evening Standard’s Nick Curtis to try Twitter - properly - for a week, in the hope that he’d reconsider his opinion of it.
I also hoped it might act as a useful primer for anyone else who has tried unsuccessfully [...]
This week’s Guardian Tech column is now available online.
In it, I respond to Guardian Film Critic, Nick Curtis’s critique of Twitter.
I also manage to cram in a toga party, a crashed wake, the ‘71 Challenger, ETech, SXSWi, cocaine and heroin - before ending with the jingle to take with you into Thursday: a Hideo [...]
