Wednesday, May 19, 2010

This Blog Has Moved******

If you are looking for my blog it is now here.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Shove in 3D

In The Sunday Times I interview John Gerrard about the fascism of efficiency - I'm very much in sympathy - and discuss the replacement of Nudge by Shove for Obama and Cameron.

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Aliens

In The Sunday Times I meet the people looking for aliens in Silicon Valley - SETI.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Connected

In The Sunday Times I talk about shrinking penises, obesity and networks. The book is Connected by Christakis and Fowler.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Old Will Win

In The Sunday Times I discuss the wrinkly revolution - demographic and cultural.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Peter Carey

In The Sunday Times I interview Peter Carey in New York.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

God, I Love America

Bolinas, California.
From where, I discover, Bill Berkson originated. He was the, at least, partial inspiration of a great poem - Frank O'Hara's For the Chinese New Year and for Bill Berkson.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Achebe


Hello from San Francisco. In The Sunday Times I interview - or, rather, sit at the feet of - Chinua Achebe. Link later. Here it is.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Jaron Lanier

Hello from New York. Tomorrow in The Sunday Times I interview Jaron Lanier. Link later. Here it is.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

On Games

In The Sunday Times I review Tom Chatfield's book on computer games Fun Inc.. My conclusion is that Jason's Rohrer's Passage is the greatest game of all. Do not, however, get involved with Rohrer's Primrose. Your conscious life will end.