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Livestation Targets TV News Addicts with Smartphones

Livestation Targets TV News Addicts via Smartphones

If RSS lets you bundle up a personalised fix of your favourite newspaper columnists and bloggers, Livestation’s live news streaming service is an RSS…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | December 10, 2009 11:50AM | 4 Comments »


Google Wave: Are We Surfing or Drowning?

Google Wave: Are We Surfing or Drowning?

In September, having an invite to Wave, Google’s latest milestone product, made you the coolest kid in school (at least among the nerds hanging…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | December 4, 2009 1:28PM | 7 Comments »


BAD IDEA presents Printomortis – Episode Four

Here’s the fourth and final episode of PRINTOMORTIS, our drama micro-series following life at an independent magazine in the dying days of print. 

For…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Podcasts & Video | February 23, 2009 2:39PM | 1 Comment »


A Closer Look at the New York Post’s Obama ‘Ape Stimulus’ Cartoon


N.B. to see the original cartoon by Sean Delonas, click here.

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Posted by James Nash in Other | February 23, 2009 1:26PM | 3 Comments »


The Committee to Save Wall Street?

It’s 10 years ago last week. There, on the cover of Time magazine, looking more self-satisfied than ever, stood the three men who would

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Posted by John Rapley in Hot Money | February 23, 2009 1:10PM | 1 Comment »


The Butcher’s Shop, Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin

Prepare your prose for the taste of cold editorial steel: The Butcher’s Shop, BAD IDEA’s unique writing workshop, returns on Thursday February 26…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Events, Podcasts & Video | February 19, 2009 1:47PM | 2 Comments »


Microsoft Plays Catch Up With Apple's App Store, Retail Chain

Microsoft Plays Catch-up with Apple’s App Store, Retail Chain

Fed up of being cast as the geeky older brother of Mac, Microsoft is taking a few initiatives to step up their cool cred, announcing…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 18, 2009 12:46PM | 1 Comment »


Google Ends Radio-Ad Venture, Layoffs to Follow

Google’s torrid affair with radio advertising ended in tears and broken promises yesterday when they broke off their rocky three-year engagement. This loss follows last…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 13, 2009 4:58PM | 1 Comment »


President Obama: Not So Super After All?

I’ll bet it was lots of fun at first. The Obamas look so sweet in that photo of them walking down Pennsylvania

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Posted by John Rapley in Other | February 12, 2009 5:45PM | 1 Comment »


Twitter Rumours False, It Will Not Start Charging For Services

The rumours of Twitter having actually come up with a revenue model have turned out to be nothing more than a game of Chinese whispers…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 11, 2009 2:43PM | 1 Comment »



Jeff Bezos and Amazon Launch Kindle 2.0, Try to Ignore Google Punch to the Solar Plexus

BRING ON THE DIGITAL BOOK REVOLUTION’, we say. The convergence of the book publishing world is picking up pace with the news that 

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Posted by Richard Leicester in Creative Economy | February 9, 2009 3:12PM | 7 Comments »