I signed up to Blinklist a long time ago, because it seemed to be the only web bookmarking service with a private flag on bookmarks. Since then two things have happened: one, del.icio.us added a privacy option, and two, the Blinklist service degraded. Or at least didn’t get any better. I now find it frequently [...]

Over on the Observer’s Business site there’s a report about UEFA taking umbridge at fans videoing and photographing matches and then putting them on content-sharing sites such as YouTube and Flickr. The more I think about it, the more I’m in sympathy with UEFA, having started from a position of opposition. The matches are held [...]

To me the most remarkable feature of last night’s iPhone 3G announcement was the maths. Before the presentation Apple had one iPhone (albeit with memory options). The announcement presented a new, 3G, iPhone. The total number of iPhones Apple now sells is… one. Compare that to, say, Nokia, who still sell the N95 alongside the [...]

Here’s the extract from the new Bond book that Toby Litt begins his review with. Why do you think it might be worth quoting…? “Bond and Scarlett went into a spacious air-conditioned room that was painted crimson: floor, ceiling, walls – there was nothing in the room that wasn’t poppy-red. Behind a desk stood an [...]