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Thoughts on consistency in tablet news apps
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5 comments on Thoughts on consistency in tablet news appsA few months ago, I finally had what I’d been dreaming of for years – digital delivery of every single magazine and newspaper I read. No more stacks of New Yorkers and Economists lingering on tables waiting to be given away (or more likely, recycled); no more hunting for all the bits of subscription forms…
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Slightly outdated thoughts on Siri
I wrote the following piece for the Telegraph a few hours before Steve Jobs’ death was announced, so unsurprisingly, it didn’t go up. And since it’s all about Siri – which is now released – it’s a bit out of date. But I thought you might be interested in seeing it anyway: This week, the…
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British Airways and Time-Travelling Commercials
British Airways unveiled their big new commercial recently, as part of their £20 million advertising campaign: It has a Downton Abbey/Mad Men retro vibe, mixed with a go-getting drive to the future; we’re meant to admire these brave ‘young men’ (as they’re always called – not ‘young people’ and certainly not ‘young women’) as they…
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On Reamde, Neal Stephenson, and The Mongoliad
I was disappointed. When I heard about Reamde‘s premise of hackers, spies, and gold mining in a massive multiplayer online game called T’Rain, I had the same worried feeling that I had when I heard about Anathem’s monasteries – that Neal Stephenson was venturing away from the sort of adventure/SF capers I enjoyed best. However,…
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Things I’m doing
Over the next few months, I’m going to be doing several conferences: TEDxSheffield on 22nd Sept Improving Reality in Brighton on 23rd Sept This Happened in London on 23rd Sept Over the Air in Bletchley Park on 30th Sept BAF Game in Bradford on 8th November There’d be three more if I weren’t going on…
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Unbound: The Crowdfunding Cargo Cult
(This piece may be appearing in The Telegraph, but I felt it would be useful to have it up soon given the recent interest in Unbound from places like The Economist). The Southwest Pacific islands of Melanesia are some of the most remote places on the planet. Until the Second World War, its inhabitants had…
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You Have A Lucky Face
I’d been walking back from a meeting in town when it suddenly began raining. I’m the type of person who packs an umbrella even at the slightest possibility of rain – in fact, at school my friends found it amusing how I always seemed to have an umbrella even in the middle of summer. Lately…
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Policy Games
Ever since last year’s UK elections produced a hung Parliament and the current Conservative/Lib Dem coalition, I’ve been following politics with a keen eye – particularly the travails of the Lib Dems, who find themselves in (sort of) power after many, many decades. It’s been interesting to see the spirited debates on places like Lib…
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Social Liberal Forum
I’m going to the Social Liberal Forum in London tomorrow, a conference being run by the Liberal Democrats. I’m not a member of the Lib Dems and to be honest I’m pretty disappointed by them, but I feel it’d be an interesting and useful experience to go to a political conference, just to see how…
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The UK is not the same as the US
In Louis Menand’s insightful article about why we have college in this week’s New Yorker, he highlights the increasing selectivity of private US universities (in contrast to the very accommodating nature of public universities) and reinforces his point by comparing them with Oxford and Cambridge: In 1940, the acceptance rate at Harvard was eighty-five per…
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