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It’s a shame almost all news sites need “promoted links” to sleazy cynical bottom-feeding clickbait garbage to remain viable. They lower the tone of every site, and actually clicking on one is like stepping in a dog turd in the street and treading it into the carpet. The economics of the web is broken.

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Rainbow Rising

Ritchie Blackmore – 10 of the best

Some notes on my latest Guardian piece Continue reading →

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Fair Streaming

A Model For Streaming?

A fair model for music streaming is possible, but it will cost more than a tenner a month. Continue reading →

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Zero She Flies - The River

Zero She Flies – The River

Zero She Flies release the four-track EP “The River” Continue reading →

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Beyond the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic

Between the Buried and Me, Coma Ecliptic

Between the Buried and Me have succeeded in delivering one of the best albums of the year so far. Continue reading →

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Long Road Made Of Gold

Kamchatka, Long Road Made Of Gold

The sixth album by the Swedish blues-rock trio shows them to be very good at what theydo. Continue reading →

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Music

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be

Is the golden age of popular music is the era for which you were born five years too late? Continue reading →

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The Legality of Ripping CDs
The Fierce and The Dead announce Magnet
Mantra Vega Live
When Only 30 People Turn Up
Cats are Metal

Computing

Reddit: The Darkening

It’s one of those bad car crashes you’ve can’t look away from. Continue reading →

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Financial Engineers and The Prolonged Death Spiral
Fiasco at a Cashless Fesitval
How Software Affects Behaviour
The Social Media Outrage Cycle
Pumpkin Spice?
When the customer changes the requirements
Trolls Are The New Spam
The Trouble With Twitter
Autoplay Video Ads Must Die

Railways

A Runway for the 1%?

Sometimes the arguments used in favour of something can be the best arguments against that thing. Continue reading →

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Electrification Postponed: Echoes of 1963?
DEMU Showcase
Old and New
Pacers still doomed in the North
East Lancashire Railway 40s Weekend
100 Years Ago Today
To Boldly Go Where No Locomotive Has Gone Before
Bont-Y-Bermo
Network Rail suspends West Coast Railways

SF and Gaming

Geeks, Mops and Sociopaths

Some incoherent thoughts on the life-cycles of subcultures. Continue reading →

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E Pluribus Hugo
RIP Christopher Lee
There are critics that help you improve, and critics that don’t
RPG theory is a load of cobblers.
The Hugo Fight Gets Ugly
First Past The Post – Is this the villain?
More thoughts on The Hugos
Sad Puppies vs The Hugo Awards

Religion & Politics

The case against Tim Hunt unravels.

Along with an awful lot of other people, I owe Sir Tim Hunt an apology Continue reading →

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Why I voted for Tim Farron
Requires Hate redux
The Tim Hunt Affair
Birth Defects of a Nation
Fearful Symmetry
Not So Alternative Comedy
White Males Behaving Badly
Culture Wars Battle of the Week
What now for the Liberal Democrats?