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LeapFrog Helps Toddlers Go Digital With New ‘BlackBerry’ Device

A father pushes his child on a park swing, as the three year old obsessively checks a Blackberry-like device for texts…

That’s the vision…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 6, 2009 3:48PM | 5 Comments »


German Musician Johannes Kreidler Turns Financial Crisis into Elevator Opus with Microsoft Songsmith

Generating 160,000 hits in less than a week, experimental German musician Johannes Kreidler’s “Financial Crisis Soundtrack” is the perfect viral antidote to

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Hot Money | February 5, 2009 4:45PM | 2 Comments »



Mad Barclay Brothers Buy Woolworths, Want to Create an Unlikely Online Rival to Tesco and Amazon

The billionaire Barclay twins are up to their shenanigans once again, outlandishly purchasing the Woolworths brand name through their company Shop Direct, and paying

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Hot Money | February 3, 2009 8:31PM | 4 Comments »


BAD IDEA presents PRINTOMORTIS, Episode Three

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

If you missed…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Podcasts & Video | February 3, 2009 2:58PM | 1 Comment »


Andrew Keen Losing His Mind, and Possibly His Column for the Independent at This Rate

As we’ve mentioned in the past, professional Internet curmudgeon Andrew Keen’s articles have been a little er… erratic of late.

Exhibit A:

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Posted by Richard Leicester in Creative Economy | February 2, 2009 5:34PM | 2 Comments »


Google Expected to Launch Invasive “Gdrive”

The Kingdom of Google is working to expand its empire from the realms of the Internet by waging a siege upon our desktop regions, with…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | January 26, 2009 6:00PM | 2 Comments »


The Butcher’s Shop is Back! Wednesday, January 28

BAD IDEA’s monthly writing workshop returns on Wednesday, January 28.
 
“Think Gunther von Hagens for the literary elite,” said KultureFlash. ”You can expect

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Events | January 24, 2009 11:31AM | 1 Comment »


DMGT Has Last Laugh, as Murdoch’s Londonpaper Crows at the Lebedev-Evening Standard Takeover

Welcome to the world of London newspapers Mr. Lebedev!

Yesterday Paul Dacre confirmed to his staff that ex-KGB man turned plutocrat Alexander

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 23, 2009 2:27PM | 4 Comments »


The Obamas Satisfy America’s Love of Royalty

As if a dam of frigid air burst on the northern border, a bitter cold front has spilled down from Canada and into Washington,

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Posted by John Rapley in Other | January 18, 2009 2:16PM | 6 Comments »


Are Russian Billionaires Like Alexander Lebedev Print Media’s Only Hope?

Alexander Lebedev, the hippest oligarch in town, is closing in on the Evening Standard, and possibly the Independent as well, according to

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 16, 2009 5:19PM | 1 Comment »


‘Czech Ambassador’ David Cerny’s Art Hoax Makes Everyone Look Silly, Including Him

David Cerny has upset most PC-minded people in Europe by making some awfully titled art, pretending it was real, then laughing at…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | January 16, 2009 10:55AM | 3 Comments »