TheWayoftheWeb

It’s been quite a momentous week for me, hence the lack of blogging. Aside from celebrating my son’s first birthday, the big event concerns my employment.
After an immensely enjoyable and educational eight years, I’ve left Bauer Media.
I hadn’t been actively looking for a change, but a couple of interesting opportunities had been put my way, [...]

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I may a relative latecomer to Ubuntu, but I wanted to share my first impressions as a couple of offline conversations have shown me that even the ‘digitally aware’ aren’t always that familiar with it.
And it seemed like a good time to post about it, as the latest version is released today, Thursday, April 23, [...]

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There’s a great article by Umair Haque on ‘Why the war against file-sharing is unwinnable‘, which was collected in a post on Music Industry Manifesto.
And one quote particularly stood out for me as being an essential element of business:
‘No business has a right to profit, sell, or even to produce. All are privileges that society [...]

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Lumping together so many disaprate businesses into one homogeneous ‘newspapers’ group is always going to result in a bit of schizophrenia, but when you’re attempting to discuss an industry, it’s a bit unavoidable.
Still, a few recent bits of information point to an industry that as a whole are still running around pointing fingers without working [...]

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