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The trouble with Twitter/Tories

The Tories, the arts and the intrigue of political transition. Preview of my Guardian commment piece which which should be in tomorrow.

The internet as a human right? An article I wrote for The Times (London)

My review of The Snark, by David Denby, from tomorrow’s Observer

Comment piece on the rise of little brother, in today’s Independent.

Me, interviewed in today’s Scotsman.

On memory, forgetting and the net: feature in tomorrow’s Sunday Times (London)

A comment piece on the decline of the newspaper industry, in today’s Guardian.

The full film of Adam Curtis’s experimental film It Felt Like a Kiss

The author as performer: FT weekend arts cover story today

Take two popular new stories, one a recent Hollywood thriller and the other the work of an underground London theatre company, and discuss.

Great Business Week feature on the US “innovation shortfall”

Are our Googling days numbered? Preview of my T2 Cover Story in The Times (London) tomorrow.

EST for ADD; The shocking Chinese cure for ‘internet addiction’

Very kind review in The Globe and Mail by Don Tapscott, co-author of Wikinomics

Will be giving a lecture at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Fri 19th June at 230pm, on “Storytelling in the cybernetic age”. With film clips, to keep everyone awake!

Read the Introduction to Cyburbia

I’m appearing tomorrow Tue 12 May, 730pm at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, if anyone’s around.

Jonah Lehrer, marshmallows and the problem of self-control

Just back from seeing Tunnel 228, the collaboration between Punchdrunk and Kevin Spacey

Lovely review from Art Review’s May edition, by JJ Charlesworth

Great review of Lost in Cyburbia in Canada’s National Post on Saturday

How The Geeks inherited the Earth. An essay which will appear in this week’s New Statesman.

Trapped in Cyburbia: A lovely review from Spiked-Online

Lost In The Loop: Review from DNA Sunday, India, 5 April

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