I was delighted and surprised to win Best Newcomer at the Travel Extra awards last night for this article on Dubai – guess I still count as a young journalist, which is quite the compliment. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it, what with being in Hamburg and all, but big thanks to Travel Extra and…
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Innovation in action
“Creating and fostering an environment conducive to innovation can seem like alchemy – with just the right mix of tax incentives and business-friendly policies and access to seed capital you might, just might, create an innovation economy. But even when it has been created, it needs constant nurturing, as the US is discovering. Considerable…
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Mediated, intermediated, disintermediated
A typically astute piece from Felix Salmon on how the likes of Tumblr and Pinterest are signposting the way media content is going to be disseminated in future – they allow everybody to act as curators, collecting and spreading the content they like. The implications for olde world media organisations are doubly troublesome – newspapers…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Why?
The merits of ambiguity and the limits of confusion Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the sort of movie I should really love – cerebral, labyrinthine, slow-paced, gorgeously restrained, characterised by a refusal to signpost twists or dumb down a complex plot. But here’s a twist I probably should have seen coming – instead of…
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Font on Front
There are so many great shop fronts, with terrific type, all over Hamburg that I’ve set up a Tumblr to chronicle the ones that catch my eye – the first entry just had to be Streit’s Kino down on Jungfernstieg, a wonderful old-style cinema with a great auditorium and a really cool cocktail lounge. Inevitably,…
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If only inanimate objects could…
After 6 years and 11 months, I finally moved out of my place in Ranelagh – seeing this beautiful video, I really wish my possessions could have upped and organised themselves on their own. So many books, newspapers, magazines, lying around like degenerates, waiting for me to pack them away – thanks to my uncle…
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There goes the man who invented the future
Late last night, I fired up my iPad for a final glance at my RSS feeds before hitting the sack – excellent, a new post from John Gruber at Daring Fireball. I always get a tiny buzz of excitement when I see a fresh DF post, no matter matter how brief. And this one…
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Dublin bookshelves, Washington paper
“In its libraries, Dublin’s literary reputation shines”, The Washington Post, Sunday October 2nd, 2011 We Dubliners take a lot of pride in our city’s reputation as a literary capital (not least because it lends our loquaciousness a certain gravitas, as if every quip were something more exalted than mere banter). Walk into any genuine…
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Talking about good ideas with Steven Johnson
Getting to chat to Steven Berlin Johnson was one of the highlights of my year so far – he’s a lovely guy, for a start, but he’s also one of those effortlessly interesting types who is just brimming with ideas all the time, and has the gift of being able to make those ideas…
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How solving a €3 problem leads to a $46bn quarter
Putting Apple’s astonishing, record-breaking quarter into context has quickly become a kind of techie parlour game, comparing the number of iPhones sold to the number of babies born, noting the value of the company compared to struggling European countries, and measuring the height of their profits in dollar bills against high-orbit space stations. When…
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