Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: web 2.0

  • Don’t shoot the Blackberry Messenger

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    BBM does things no web social network can do… it mirrors the flexibility of real life RIM’s fortunes have taken a catastrophic, Nokia-style nosedive in the past year – but it has a chance of pulling up. Admittedly, the odds are long, but this week the Canadian company began its fightback. It’s certainly right up…

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  • The BBC struggles with the concept of ‘tech bubble’

    The BBC struggles with the concept of ‘tech bubble’

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The BBC has a real problem with social media. It’s delighted when something new appears. It slips into the patrician role that comes naturally to broadcasters – and especially the BBC. It can express childlike wonderment – Wow! – at something new and amazing. Getting beyond that though, is where the trouble starts. Perhaps the…

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  • The Autistic Network

    The Autistic Network

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Andrew’s Mailbag Isn’t it time for a War on Stupid Generalisations? These usually need a Czar, and I’d gladly volunteer. Novelist Zadie Smith has written about the movie The Social Network and wonders if Mark Zuckerberg’s apparent extreme autism doesn’t manifest itself in both the reductive view of humanity that Facebook (and Web 2.0) software…

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  • Nathan Barleys to fill Olympic chasm – PM

    Nathan Barleys to fill Olympic chasm – PM

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Prime Minister David Cameron has cast his gaze east across to Essex – and dreams of a landscape filled with social media marketing consultants and SEO boutiques as far as the eye can see. In the aftermath of the Olympics, Cameron wants to put the land and property on the Lea Valley to private sector…

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  • Greatest Living Briton gets £30m for ‘web science’

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    As an alliance of the desperate, this one takes some beating. The Greatest Living Briton (Sir Timothy Berners Lee) has been thrown £30m of taxpayers’ money for a new institute to research “web science”. Meanwhile the Prime Minister waxed lyrical today about the semantic web – how “data” would replace files, with machine speaking unto…

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  • Panorama on the Digital Economy Bill

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    BBC1’s flagship current affairs program was devoted to file sharing last night, and contained something to piss off a range of lobbyists. Usually when this happens, BBC producers often conclude “they’re doing something right”, and pour themselves a large, congratulatory drink. They shouldn’t, because while the program succeeded in trying to be “fair”, it failed…

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