Posts from January 2009

I’m scared (January 31st, 2009)

Josh: They don’t seem to be taking my response in the spirit in which it was intended.
Donna: Yeah.
Josh: Seems to be a very unusual social structure. For instance, there is leader who seems to pride herself on her organizational skills and a certain amount of discipline.
Donna: Right. That’s what’s called a control freak.
Josh: Well, she [...]



Turn off the computer, shut these people up, and let’s go back to work (January 31st, 2009)

C.J.: Let me explain something to you. This is sort of my field. The people on these sites? They’re the cast of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The muu-muu-wearing Parliament smoker? That’s Nurse Ratched. When Nurse Ratched is unhappy, the patients are unhappy. You? You’re McMurphy. You swoop in with your card games and [...]



If you can’t say anything nice, kill yourself (January 29th, 2009)

This week’s column is now online.



Looks like I’ve made it (January 29th, 2009)

Photo by Julia Allison. This is starting to become my trademark pose.



DLD*: Liveblogging the Internet Politics panel (January 26th, 2009)

(Start from the bottom and read up)

Right, fuck this, I’m going back to Twitter.
I will say this, though: the wireless is great and it’s toasty warm. Just saying.
I’m really bad at it.
I’ve just remembered why I hate liveblogging.
Cheney even.
Jeff Jarvis: “Can you imagine Dick Chaney blogging?”
Discussing whether David Cameron will stop videoblogging if he gets [...]



Hanging out on the corner of Hope and Obama (January 21st, 2009)

It’s my last full day in San Francisco today so apologies, once again, for brevity. But this week’s column is now online.
It’s about Obama. Who’da thunk it?



I don’t think you people realise how hard I work at appearing this lazy (January 16th, 2009)

We were somewhere around Starbucks on the edge of the Luxor when the panic began to take hold.  I remember saying something like “I feel a bit empty-headed; maybe you should write my column this week…”
This week’s column is now online. Given that I went to CES without a pass and never once set foot in the convention center, [...]



Just about as happy as I can be (January 11th, 2009)

What was it Heath Ledger said in The Dark Knight? If you ‘re good at something, never do it for free?
So, yes, I’m saving much of the good stuff from my Vegas trip for The Column but here, in the meantime, are the Counting Crows at the Intel Party @ The Luxor.
Kudos to [...]



Happy to help (January 10th, 2009)

Greetings for Las Vegas. Proper post on that to follow but, in the meantime, one last video from San Francisco, courtesy of the American Paul Carr…



Leaving, Las Vegas (January 8th, 2009)

Can’t stop – flight for Vegas leaves in a few hours and I have a world of stuff to deal with. 
Just time to say that this week’s column is now online. Oh, and I appear to be a Wanted Man again.
Hey ho.



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