#news

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https://iandunt.substack.com/p/everything-you-need...

A genuinely solid write up, that explains how we got here, and what I very much hope will happen nex...

alasdairw May 01, 2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-4484...

A history of the music compilation albums. Lots of interesting stuff in here. (In case you're curi...

alasdairw Aug 22, 2018

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/us-lockh...

I... don't know what to make of this. If it's true, this is *huge* news. Just enormous, on a sort...

alasdairw Oct 15, 2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17580629

Several of these are fascinating. Others are just mad. Either way, I like 'em.

alasdairw Apr 02, 2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/jaccuse-s...

Naomi Wolf produces a far clearer, far more on the nose, summation of the point she was articulating...

alasdairw Dec 15, 2010

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-pay...

Lots in here, but here's the key thing: "This re-engineering suggests that paywalls don’t and can’t...

alasdairw Nov 09, 2010

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023047...

By this point, there really isn't a lot of point in saying anything. I'm just y'know, sighing and r...

alasdairw Oct 19, 2010

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id...

I cut my teeth building systems for a local newspaper company - one, in fact, that I had delivered a...

alasdairw Aug 13, 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/62951...

"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." I am sadden...

alasdairw Jul 23, 2009

http://feedafever.com/

Proving once again that there is no idea for a web app that I can have that someone else hasn't alre...

alasdairw Jun 18, 2009

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly...

To be honest, I'm only surprised it's taken this long. Sure, they were very important in 1999/2000,...

alasdairw Apr 23, 2009

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-an...

Yes, it's true. Newspapers are fucked. Hardly radical thinking, but a very cogent summary of exact...

alasdairw Mar 16, 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/what-is-th...

Everyone and their dog is linking to this today. And do you know why? Because it's *fucking awesom...

alasdairw Mar 11, 2009

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html...

Can we all please just move on from this now there's some accurate reportage about it?

alasdairw Jan 06, 2009