Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: Fun

  • “Daddy, what’s a Press License?”

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    It’s 2020, and a young girl is doing her homework…

    “Daddy, what’s a press licence?”

    “Oh, that. Well a press licence allows you to call yourself a journalist and get into official events, for official journalists.”

    “What for?”

    “Well you get into events held by the government or a company, or for example a football club, and can then write about them.”

    “So it’s like a parking permit. But I don’t understand. Everybody is writing about everything anyway. On the … Read More

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  • Associated Newspapes, GMG to pool newsrooms

    Associated Newspapes, GMG to pool newsrooms

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Marketing teams at both newspapers discovered a new super-segment of the declining newspaper market they have informally dubbed ‘the new authoritarian’. According to one circulation manager, this is a reader who “wants to find out what everybody is doing, and stop them doing it”

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  • BBC: Grasp the high-speed runaway cloud nettle

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Hats off to BBC Online’s Silicon Valley correspondent Maggie Shiels, who on her dot.maggie blog offers some defining purple prose for the new era in computing.

    Attending the RSA conference, Maggie reports on the race to offer ‘cloud computing’ services:

    ensuring security is not a “Johnny come lately” idea and that the clock was ticking for the industry to grasp the nettle before it was too late.

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  • Inside Adam Curtis’ funhouse

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    It Felt Like A Kiss

    After a few promises not to spoil the plot, I stepped through Punchdrunk’s It Felt Like A Kiss while the sets were being built

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  • A Copyright Summit diary

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    To be precise...

    Anecdotes about treating Korean internet addicts, Charlie Nesson, and the Comic Book Store Guy. The strong ‘negative’ rating suggests at least one of these touched a nerve.

    Dr Yong-Kyung Lee, head of Korea Telecom and a policy advisor to the Korean government, amazed delegates with his descriptions of high tech Korea. Lee was a Bell Labs R&D guy for years, but for the last decade has had an entire country to play with.

    But one factoid emerged unscripted.

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  • Obama administration joins Google

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Steve Jobs may have engineered the most audacious reverse-takeover in tech history when Apple “acquired” NeXT in 1996. Within a year, Jobs and his NeXT colleagues had purged Apple executives from all the key positions (although the chief accountant remained – which may tell you something about chief accountants). But that’s small beer compared to Google’s acquisition of the Obama Administration.

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