Friday, 21. April 2006, 11:09:43
music, globalisation, megalomaniacs, web-interface addiction
I was visiting a couple [K and B] who have just had a loud, healthy baby to join the other loud, healthy baby they have already.
I say that I'm on MySpace and have finally got round to using it, after five months. K tells me it's owned by Rupert Murdoch. And I twitch slightly.
So I thought I'd find an article that would attempt to say where we all stand.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4697671.stmI'm still twitching slightly. But it is quite addictive, so I'm off to check if I've made any new friends.
Sunday, 2. October 2005, 09:26:04
misery, news, poverty, globalisation
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I read this last week: it has sat on my mind since then.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4277980.stmFor me, the well-oiled media exercises that were Live8 and G8, when held up to the light of this story, are shown as they have always been: vacuous, self-serving, impotent.