Archive – Page 87 – Andrew Orlowski

Netizens: white, wealthy and middle class (and full of it)

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Andrew Orlowski

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1 December 2004

“The Internet is becoming more and more widespread and will increasingly represent a scientific random sample of the population,” claims ICANN’s newest board member, Joi Ito. Quite what scientific experiments he will wish to perform, once the desired sample size has been reached, remains a mystery. But like many people who spend too long in…

Stories

Does US politics need a Nerd Party?

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Andrew Orlowski

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5 November 2004

A newspaper columnist has called for the old-fashioned, “left wing” Democratic Party to be replaced by a new, emergent party of computer nerds. Dan Gillmor of Silicon Valley’s San Jose Mercury urges the Democrats to abandon “old, discredited politics”, while an “increasingly radical middle” needs a new party with some “creative thinking”. From where will…

Talks

In The City keynote: How the music business can be loved

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Andrew Orlowski

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22 September 2004

A plea to legalise P2P file sharing. I now favour voluntary approach to the same goal. Read the original transcript here.… Read More

Stories

How Wikipedia ‘will make universities obsolete’

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Andrew Orlowski

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7 September 2004

For most web surfers, the Wikipedia is simply an occasionally useful online resource that needs to be taken with a huge sackful of salt. For others, it’s a poor excuse for a real encylopedia. But for its proponents, it’s nothing short of revolutionary! It’s Emergent, you see. A column by veteran tech writer Al Fasoldt…

Talks

BBC Newsnight: the Google IPO

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Andrew Orlowski

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18 August 2004

Transcript at the BBC site, here.… Read More

Stories

Hungover CNET wakes up next to MP3.com

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Andrew Orlowski

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15 November 2003

What a night out that was. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time… On Friday morning CNET woke up to find it was sharing a bed with MP3.com, and couldn’t quite recollect how the pair of them had got there. We’ve all had nights like this, but yesterday CNET staffers were…