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Kathy Sierra, missing at ETech - and the darker side of the blogosphere

Free speech and anonymity are cornerstones of idea-sharing on the web. But isn't it crushingly disappointing when the subject becomes about defending the rights of people - who should be more evolved - to act like children in a playground? The whole Kathy Sierra nightmare, in The First Post.

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Twitter - implosion inevitable?

I've just written an introduction to Twitter for The First Post. Something's definitely happening over at the web's biggest timewaste du jour, and I'm struggling to really work out what it is. It appears to revolve around a handful of the clickerati - in particular, Leo Laporte, Robert Scoble and Steve Rubel and friends- who have adopted Twitter into their daily lives and who, via an open-door policy to friends and followers, are pushing the system to its very limits with some of the biggest conversations ever seen online. Whether the conversation are interesting is debatable... but the way they're taking place is. Over the last few days the whole Twitter ecosystem seems to have slowed right down... pages take an age refresh, it takes an age to log-in, another age to post. Is something going to have to give? is Twitter being reshaped by its users? And, if so, what shape the new Twitter left behind?

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Kings of Swing for Jazz File

I've recently finished the last in a series of interviews for a forthcoming Radio 3 Jazz File about Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman. It's been a real privilege, talking to people who knew or played with them, a chance to revisit some of the music that got me interested in jazz way back when I was a weird kid and put it into a context of real, living people. The series will be in three half-hours. Programmes 1 & 2 are being edited. I should have written programme 3 before the week's out, and I'm looking to record it next week. It's scheduled to go out this spring, and I'll post transmission dates (just as) soon (as I know what they are!).