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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...