Tag: The New Bureaucracy
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Suits 2.0 at the BBC
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Andrew Orlowski
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Bureaucracy is the one sure winner in the BBC’s strategic review – the suits and wonks. It’s sort of like natural selection turned upside: in a changing environment, the most useless survive. Mark Thompson’s review, leaked to the Times today, was supposed to review the Corporation’s output, and it could have helped made inroads into…
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Junk science and booze tax – a study in spin
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Andrew Orlowski
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“Let’s find out what everybody is doing, and stop them doing it” – A P Herbert Putting the price of alcohol up to a minimum of 40p a unit would keep 41,000 people a year out of hospital, save the NHS £116m a year, and avoid 12,400 cases of unemployment, a report from Sheffield University…
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The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell
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Andrew Orlowski
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Have you ever had the nagging sense that there’s something not quite right with the adulation that follows Malcolm Gladwell – the author of Tipping Point? But you couldn’t quite put your finger on it? We’re here to help, dear reader. Gladwell gave two vanity “performances” in the West End – prompting fevered adulation from…
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Miliband goes mad for Web 2.0
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Andrew Orlowski
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David Miliband, the environment minister tipped to be the next Labour Party leader by a friendly Westminster press, says “a new spirit” is afoot in the UK, brought about by Web 2.0. Miliband said the web had polarised debate into competing extremities, where the truth was decided by whoever shouted the loudest. Traditional engineering values,…
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Management consultants on the march, powered by Junk Science
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Andrew Orlowski
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BBC seeks ‘Digital Assassins’
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Andrew Orlowski
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What if they held a digital media revolution – and nobody came? The BBC is having trouble finding citizens to attend a conference devoted to the exciting new world of Citizens Media. It’s a Beeb-sponsored day about the “democratization of the media”, but despite a 50 quid bribe to attend – that’s more than you…