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…

This week’s column is now available online. It’s about day one of LeWeb.
Right – no time to dilly-dally! Got to get back to the conference centre to get lynched.

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

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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 [...]