Having literally lost a year of his life to playing World of Warcraft (WoW), a ‘successful’ player anonymously writes about the personal, social, financial and…
5 CommentsMonth: October 2006
Over the past couple of days I’ve found myself reading a lot of NY Times stories – through listings on memetrackers ([1] and [2]), but…
One CommentKevin Burton’s just launched a new version of his news/meme tracker Tailrank. Improvements including a new UI and also backend work, including the clustering engine.…
Comments closed“I’m sure they would”, you might say. But the reason for mentioning it is that (technically and financially) they probably could. Looking at Google –…
6 Comments(seeing as everyone seems to have a bee in their bonnet about good blog writing style, particularly headlines, how’s that for a blog title, eh?)…
7 CommentsMy good friend Suw Charman is seeking a full-time Executive Director for the Open Rights Group (ORG). Suw is of course the current ‘non-full-time’ Executive…
3 CommentsCarphone Warehouse, parent company to the much criticised ‘free broadband’ play TalkTalk, has announced it is buying AOL UK. The deal was agreed at £370m/$687m…
2 CommentsLoic Le Muer informs us that Les Blogs III will be returning to Paris on December 11 and 12. I’m not going to be going,…
2 CommentsAn interesting + valid perspective about the value of Windows XP in a Vista-realm. When Vista is launched, Microsoft will take XP off the shelves.…
2 CommentsGoogle’s official press release confirms the rumours: They have bought YouTube for $1.65B – apparently in stock. BBC has some coverage and Chris has mocked…
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