March 2003

Piccadilly Circus, March 2003

March 28, 2003

I acquired a new mobile ‘phone earlier in the week and it has a tiny camera in it which I used to take a picture of Piccadilly Circus at night

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Has the tide turned for free online content?

March 28, 2003

I don’t think we’re about to see the death of free. Once you don’t charge it’s going to be hard to charge because there’ll be somebody else with a free carrot.

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Small Screens Look Good

March 26, 2003

You know, I am really impressed by the new version of Opera (which has always been a browser I have used).

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Online Advertising is a Nuisance

March 20, 2003

43% of users think that online advertising is a nuisance. But will they pay for content. Isn’t that the question?

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To Be A Politician

March 18, 2003

On Iraq, I believe that the prevailing mood of the British people is sound. They do not doubt that Saddam is a brutal dictator, but they are not persuaded that he is a clear and present danger to Britain.

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Dreams of the Downsized

March 10, 2003

Today I understood how the internet was built up and how it failed to deliver on those dreams for many people. What was sad were the changes that have happened to the online group over the last year. Gone are the product managers, most developers and many of the other staff. They are now much, much smaller than they were.

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Thoughts on Blogspace

March 5, 2003

I believe I might be attaching a purity to the weblog concept that is misplaced. I wouldn’t place those same ideals on population as a whole, so why should I do it to the blogged world? Freedom to write whatever I want is a fine thing and, perhaps, I imposing concepts of integrity that are incompatible with this freedom?

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Elsewhere: Blogging & Advertising

March 4, 2003

Over on the ukbloggers-discuss at Yahoo Groups, we’ve been having a discussion about advertising, prompted by Tom Coates asking, “Did we ever come to any conclusions about the appropriateness of advertising?” in the context of blogging. In essence we’re saying that blogging is personal and, if you decide that your audience will accept advertising, what does this mean and how iwll it work for a blog?

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Commercial Free

March 4, 2003

Should Blogs carry advertising? When it’s not clear if an opinion blogged is really paid for commercial content being passed of as something else. It’s not a problem unique to the blogsphere but it’s something that I haven’t pondered a great deal until today. It is a problem other media have had to deal with for years – some have done it better than others

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Eggs and Spam For Breakfast (No Eggs)

March 3, 2003

The first time I have ever received all spam and nothing else to my office in-box on a Monday morning.

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Ben Affleck In Tight Leather

March 1, 2003

Looking at the referrer logs for this site, a lot of people are getting here thanks to my mention of Ben Affleck in tight leather. Ben Affleck in tight leather – why are you looking for those pictures?

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