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• Afghanistan’s TV Phone Users Offer a Lesson September 6, 2010
  By Jeremy Wagstaff There’s something I notice amid all the dust, drudgery and danger of Kabul life: the cellphone TVs. No guard booth—and there are lots of them—is complete without a little cellphone sitting on its side, pumping out some...
• Podcast: The Lure of Flow September 2, 2010
  The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my column on reading on the cellphone (The Business Daily podcast is here.) Loose Wireless 100901 To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the following...
• The Proud Legacy of the New Web August 24, 2010
  My weekly column for the Loose Wire Servce. A few things I had to do this week brought me to the same conclusion: Companies that don’t get simplicity are struggling. First off, I have been writing a paper on social...
• Lost in the Flow of The Digital Word August 16, 2010
  my weekly column as part of the Loose Wire Service, hence the lack of links. By Jeremy Wagstaff A few weeks ago I wrote about the emergence of the digital book, and how, basically, we should get over our love...
• The Phantom Threats We Face August 9, 2010
  This is a copy of my weekly Loose Wire Service column. By Jeremy Wagstaff We fear what we don’t know, even if it’s a guy in Shenzhen trying to make an honest living developing software that changes the background color...
• Podcast: Comment Demons August 5, 2010
  The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my column on Turning Off the Comment Demon. (The Business Daily podcast is here.) Loose Wireless 100804 To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the...
• A pale white man shows us what journalism is August 2, 2010
  My weekly Loose Wire Service column. Is the Internet replacing journalism? It’s a question that popped up as I gazed at the blurred, distorted web-stream of a press conference from London by the founder of WikiLeaks, a website designed to...
• Web 2.0 or Social Media? It Depends on the Year August 1, 2010
  A client asked me the other day what the difference was between social media, new media, digital media and Web 2.0. I told him: time. To see what I mean look at the following timeline from Google Trends: The blue...
• Phantom Mobile Threats July 30, 2010
  How secure is your mobile phone? This is an old bugaboo that folks who sell antivirus software have tried to get us scared about. But the truth is that for the past decade there’s really not much to lose sleep...
• Podcast: Hotel Service July 29, 2010
  The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my column on Hotel Serice (The Business Daily podcast is here.) Loose Wireless 100728 To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the following times, or...