Andrew Orlowski

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  • On the Web 2.0 bubble

    To London, where the web utopianism has a name (“Web 2.0”) and is a rage amongst marketing and media people. I reiterated a point I had raised two years earlier: &ldquo”Let’s acknowledge what the Web has been successful at: as a presentation layer. But the Web 2.0 kids desperately want to write system apps on…

  • Wikipedia defends reality against Stephen Colbert

    TV wit Stephen Colbert has had more fun at the expense of Wikipedia with another deeply ironic prank. Last year Colbert satirized the project’s dependence on the consensus theory of truth – which for Wikipedians is a feature, not a bug. The project’s guideline “WP:V” states, “The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not…

  • An interview with Keith Harris

    Keith Harris was general manager of Motown, has managed Stevie Wonder for 30 years, is currently director of performer affairs at collecting society the PPL and chairman of the MusicTank network at the University of Westminster. Were you disappointed there wasn’t more public support for extending copyright on sound recordings? When the issue was raised,…

  • Universal exec – say goodbye to the old record co.

    An RIAA board member and executive from the world’s biggest record company has said the old way of doing business has gone forever now. Larry Kenswil, president of Universal Music Group’s eLabs, might not speak for all of Universal Music, but he does speak for an important part of it. Kenswil today said labels could…