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Etech is over

Etech is over and a great time was had by all. Our presentation was dogged by technical difficulties that meant I ended up using old slides but everyone seemed to enjoy it regardless.

MySpace vs Facebook

I’ve been on MySpace for a while now, basically because loads of my friends are, but I’ve barely used it in the last 2 months, apart from checking on a few bands. It’s just too much hassle. It’s hard

Music, London and MySpace

The London music scene seems to be on fire at the moment! I can’t remember a time when there were more gigs to go to… In the last 10 days I’ve seen: Crystal Castles Danny Rapscallion of The

Why I won't music shop on the high street: a Long Tail case study

The Netflix $1 million competition to improve their recommendation engine has reminded me of something I said to my brother in Virgin Megastore the other night… I’d wandered in to kill some time

The BBC popularising Podcasting

I thought that podcasting would take a while to take off… And by a while, I mean years. How many people have iPods? Yes lots, but how many people even have MP3 players? Still not a majority. Of

The Rojo Newsletter

I’ve been using Rojo as my RSS reader for about a year now and I love it. I use a tiny fraction of its functionality, to be honest, but it does exactly what I want. I particularly like its

Podcasting vs Singles for small labels

I was listening to my favourite podcast (Radio SubPop) today and it got me thinking… It’s a series of tracks given away by a record label. Why? Aren’t they reducing their artists’ saleability by

Thought Leaders and Centers of Influence

I released a new article on Monday called Playing Nice with the Other CSS Kids. As always, I’ve been watching its progress around the internet community very closely. Having done this a few times now

Nizlopi, that video and the power of online

When the JCB song video did the rounds a few weeks ago I was completely charmed. I watched it through several times, ordered the album and then spent a while browsing the Monkeehub website. That’s

Google vs Microsoft

So, Google vs Microsoft then? It sounds like this is going to be more interesting than I was expecting… The leader in findability and online advertising vs the leader in consumer platforms. While

The Internet in China

It’s a bit of a co-incidence but there appears to be a chap blogging the progress of the internet in China! Interesting reading… ChinaWhite.

Yahoo in China

I’ve not really been following this, to be honest but this story just doesn’t feel right to me: Yahoo helped jail China writer. The ‘China writer’ has been sentenced to 10 years because ‘he was found

Polling Stations in Hackney

Right, I’m frustrated. It’s the Mayoral elections tomorrow along with voting for the European parliament and the London Assembly. There’s been a lot of fuss made about postal voting and the polling…

Vodaphone Futures Flash Site

Vodaphone have created an incredibly slick, high-bandwidth site to promote their R&D department’s work. They’ve used streaming Flash video (Comm Server), slick transitions, heavy media, large

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