Andrew Orlowski

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  • Man discovers his net wasn’t neutered

    We have very little idea of how a hysteria can grip sensible, rational people – until it strikes. After Orson Welles’s War Of The Worlds radio broadcast, the public reported sightings of Martians. According to urban legend, a farmer’s water tower was peppered with small arms fire, in the belief that it was a Martian…

  • Futurist’s music widget goes titsup 2.0

    Music’s best-known “futurist” has admitted his latest business idea has flopped and the service will close. Gerd Leonard of “Music 2.0” fame, who popularised the phrase “music flows like water”, has discovered that on the internet, revenue flows like set cement. His company Sonific, which allows bloggers to embed a widget that plays music, will…

  • Earth to Ofcom: They’re our airwaves. Give us them back

    Sometimes Ofcom, Britain’s media and telecomms uber-regulator, likes to agonise in public whether Britain needs a media and telecomms uber-regulator. It must feel like a stag night in SE1, as the executives fly in expensive blue-sky wonks and consultants, and Ofcom gets quite giddy with itself at the prospect of a world without Ofcom. Then…

  • Billy Bragg: Why should songwriters starve so others get rich?

    Billy Bragg interviewed. With audio, it’s all here.